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One sided reporting continues

Posted Sep 12, 2003 14:57 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
In reply to: One sided reporting continues by ccchips
Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

The problem is that the press likes new things. SCO is always changing there story to keep it interesting. The open source community has kept on saying the same thing over and over.

IBM: We have a perpetual license.
Linus: SCO is smoking crack.
ESR: UnixWare doesn't even have enterprise features.

If we want to be in the news, then we have to start doing new things every week.


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One sided reporting continues

Posted Sep 12, 2003 15:16 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

I looked in the "letter from Linus" thread, and found out that people in our sphere may have something big coming up.

If it's anything like the speculation, it will definietly be "something different."

One sided reporting continues

Posted Sep 15, 2003 11:18 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

From the grin on the face of the Cheshire Cat (ESR), I think it might well be a case of "hello court, look at all this GPL code we found in SCO Unix. Can we have an injunction to stop them shipping Unix, please?".

All accompanied by mounds of well researched evidence, affidavits by authors, etc etc etc. Bear in mind that in order to get the judge to issue an injunction, you have to have "a reasonable chance of winning", I think they're looking at making it so watertight that they don't have a hope in hell of losing, and the judge will only need one or two braincells to agree with them :-)

SCO just won't know what hit 'em ...

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Sep 12, 2003 15:57 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

I also got a nice response from ComputerWorld right away, from someone who apparently believes SCO are nothing but wind (found postings from her on the SCO discussion forum on ComputerWorld.)

It's good to know.

One sided reporting continues

Posted Sep 12, 2003 16:16 UTC (Fri) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link]

>The problem is that the press likes new things. SCO is always changing
>there story to keep it interesting. The open source community has kept
>on saying the same thing over and over.

That's not really the issue here. Rather, the financial press is
organized to index news by the companies involved and there is a
presupposition that whatever press releases a company puts out about its
business is relevant and newsworthy (about that business). There is no
such presupposition about what other unrelated parties have to say about
the business. For example, the New York Times keeps running stories and
editorials about IBM's liability/misconduct in operating semiconductor
manufacturing clean rooms with toxic chemicals that cause cancer and
birth defects during the 1970s and 1980s but you will find few to none of
these stories linked under IBM on Reuters. An actual news development
about a specific lawsuit probably would make its way there, but not a
commentary or general interest piece.


One sided reporting continues

Posted Sep 13, 2003 3:07 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Right!!!, like you can read "Where are the WMDs" in the press every day...thought the FS/OSS has really something new everyday!

Just admit that "The Press is Controlled to only pass the political dominant will"...

And it isn't only America, its everywhere....

GOVERNMENTS LIE DELIBERATELY OR BY OMISSION EVERYDAY, AND TRY TO CONTROL PEOPLE BY DESINFORMATION...

This is not a conspiracy theory, its the reality, just admit it...

So no real press coverage for Linux/FS/OSS,..., we all got to live with it.

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