SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

Posted Sep 12, 2003 17:05 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

Yes...that's exactly what I did also (see other posts from me.)

Computerworld is a responsible and respectable publication, so politeness is the best approach.

We can let it slip a bit here, because most people who come here are pretty much "in the scene,) or bit-players like myself, but considering the kind, respectful response I got from them, I can't help but emphasize politeness.

Darn...I wish I didn't have so many bills--I'd drop $60 on the LWN site just to be grateful.

Posted Sep 12, 2003 17:11 UTC (Fri) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link]

oops. premature clickage. why can't we edit posted comments? anyway...

Now, they have Linus's rebuttal to SCO, but that isn't "Linux News" and they have the Raymond/Perens letter, but that isn't "Linux News" and of course there are lots of more recent dissections of the Forrester report, but that isn't Linux News either.

So? Do what I did. Write the ComputerWorld editor and the article's author a polite email asking why their coverage appears so biased and unbalanced. Ask when they are going to publish an interview with ESR and BP.

Posted Sep 13, 2003 4:00 UTC (Sat) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Geee!... i just lost count on how many of those i did, specialy outside of the IT dedicated press...

Linux/OSS got so big without any help from the press, i guess it can get much bigger the same way!