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by sunir 5311 days ago
Christian Marth (@cloudgroupsyd) has a lot of explaining for that ridiculous and risible "Indian cowboy" dig. Twenty times worse because he doubled down on it while backpeddling.
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Normally comments about someone's perceived race (I didn't know there was more than one human race) is reserved for idiots who get their education about the world from tv.

The indian cowboy slur against Freshdesk is beyond ignorant. Especially for a technie. They're usually pretty good for researching.

Maybe Christian Marth should learn indians invented counting, the pentium chip, hotmail, fiber optics and lots of other things without which our ability to bask in our own glory is not as possible.

If they're not perfect, but as we can see from Zendesk, neither are others.

Thanks downvoters, your hatering feeds my loving. :)
Wikipedia: Smith came up with the idea for anonymous web-based email in 1995, and worked with his colleague at Apple, Bhatia, to found the company.
Is "Indian cowboy" an insult? Makes them sound like Bollywood badasses to me.
Here in the UK it's used to refer to builders/plumbers/etc who do bad work while claiming to be proficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy#Negative_associations