On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 01:23:06AM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > It was unfortunate that his questions were sent at a time when both Nils > and I were on vacation and Joey and Ian were tied up with real life issues > :( > > Just thinking on my own, it might not be a bad idea if people friendly to > Debian and SPI were to write letters of complaint to Mr. Leibovitch's > employers explaining how the articles are unfounded and something along the > lines of "...not reading a publication that spreads deliberate untruths..." > or something along those lines. Readers are the basis for advertising > dollars which are the basis for income to any publication, print or > electronic. Yes well his article got written anyway didn't it? His attitude was snotty and further demonstrates his contempt for non-commercial Linux organizations and distributions. He outright lied about SPI and obviously had not done his homeword on the legal front either when he claimed that Open Source is "not even a (TM)"... Um, Open Source IS in fact a (TM)---it is not however an (R). His article was pretty much more of the FUD-filled trash I have come to expect from ZDnet. And the same authoritarian contempt for the people who make Linux and the Free Software movement what it is from a man who doesn't get it, never will, but continues to pretend he does. And lately I have been on a letter-writing spree... Not just to companies but to advertisers and more... More than a couple of people will be reading my opinions of Evan Leibovitch's editorials as well as my opinions of their style of coverage of Linux in general. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * SynrG notes that the number of configuration questions to answer in sendmail is NON-TRIVIAL
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