Self-selecting or selecting self?

There has been a bit of a brouhaha lately over the Jericho Forum and the amazing shrinking, disappearing, shifting, changing, eternal (take your pick) perimeter.  It started with Chris Hoff teeing off on Rich Mogul. Rich had a get out of jail free card while he was still at Gartner, as not even Hoff while working for a vendor, would piss off a Gartner dude.  However, the Teflon is gone and Hoff is on.  He took umbrage with Rich's views on the Jericho folks.  I was going to jump in, but every time I disagree with the Hoff man lately he accuses me of going off my meds.  No doubt Hoff can write a mean rhyme and a long blog post.  But sometimes he is so deep in the doo-do, that he kind of loses some of the subtler points being made.  Anyway, I digress.  What got this party started was another former Gartner dude weighing in, Rich Stiennon.  For those who do not know, Chris and Rich Stiennon have a long history of antagonizing each other.  Anyway, Dan Weber then brings up a point I wanted to comment on in Rich Stiennons comments.  Rich ends his article with this:

I work for a vendor of network perimeter security appliances. But, keep in mind, I would not be working for a perimeter defense company if I did not truly believe that the answer lies in protecting our networks. If I believed otherwise I would work for a de-perimeterization vendor, if I could find one. :-)

Dan calls BS on this and I agree 100%.  I don't believe for a second that Rich went to work at Fortinet because of his belief in the sanctity of the perimeter.  I think if Rich worked for an anti-spyware company (wait he already did that didn't he), he would be all for anti-spyware. If he worked for an endpoint provider he would be a big supporter of a endpoint security.  Lets be clear, it is not only Rich.  Many folks in the security sphere claim that they came to work where they did because of their deeply held beliefs in the supremacy of their companies technology and approach.  I say give me a break people.  You like it because it is yours and it is paying the bills.  Lets be open and honest about it. That would be a good place to start.