Talk:Traitorous Eight

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I always heard this group referred to as the "Fairchildren", an obviously more positive name. There seems no middle ground, and I do not know the attribution of either term. How to resolve this? - Gnetwerker 08:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Shockley called them the traitorours eight; as far as the other terms, you'd have to dig. Raul654 12:53, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Fairchildren refers to the spinoff companies from Fairchild, not the men who founded Fairchild. Google "fairchildren" and the results are pretty consistent. JoelWest 22:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

"(Naively, Shockley envisioned the operation of the Laboratory as if the researchers were the Knights of the Round Table and he were King Arthur.IEEE Spectrum)" This does not give any useful information (King Arthur is seen in very different ways), is mysterious at its best and POV at its worst, and the "IEEE Spectrum" note is just incomprehensible. --Oop 10:26, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Even worse, it doesn't appear to exist. A search on http://ieeexplore.ieee.org of the 23 articles in IEEE Spectrum that mention "Shockley" shows nothing of the sort. JoelWest 22:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, I worked with some of these people, and the original version is correct. I have reverted your changes and provided a reference. It was trivial to find. -- Gnetwerker 22:47, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Oop that the King Arthur comparison is unencyclopedic and/or POV, so I have removed it. I have also modified that paragraph slightly to make it clear that the opinions certain authors have about Shockley are just that: opinions of certain authors. People have very subjective opinions of each other, so let's try to keep it to objective facts whenever possible. Thank you for the reference, Gnetwerker. -kotra 23:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

"There is no record of Shockley ever using the term "traitorous eight," and his wife denied that he ever used it.[3]" Well, taking that for granted, then shouldn't the article be named "Fairchild Eight" instead, and have the term "Traitorous Eight" redirected to it? I think it's wrong to substitute neutral names by mockery names. January, 3, 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.43.157.162 (talk) 13:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a historical name and history may not always agree with your PC views. Wikipedia is not censored. Taza insane (talk) 20:24, 17 February 2008 (UTC)