Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.
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I know I run the risk of getting this reported as "abuse"; I really don't mean it as such. But would it have killed the author to have used a spellchecker before sending this letter? Or have someone go through it and point out serious errors of grammar, of which there are many?
I know there are people reading this and thinking "oh god, a spelling/grammar flame." This isn't one. I'm simply making the point that when you're trying to persuade someone else to do something, you always want your presentation to be impeccable. If your writing is full of errors, it's easier to dismiss what you say as being the opinions of some crank. I guarantee you that if someone without prior opinions receives two letters, one for and one against a position on an issue, and the former is written well while the latter is written poorly, the former will carry more weight.