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Is this an "advertorial"?

Is this an "advertorial"?

Posted Nov 22, 2003 15:24 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Is this an "advertorial"? by ctg
Parent article: Interview with Andreas Typaldos, Xandros CEO

It's just another article by Ladislav, who has been writing lead articles for the distributions page for months. This one came in early and we decided to put out on its own. I'm truly sorry if you didn't like it, but you can be assured that it is not in any way "sponsored" by any vendor.


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Is this an "advertorial"?

Posted Nov 23, 2003 3:50 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Sure looks sponsored. Not the kind of thing I'd like to read in the weekly edition.

e.g: the question about contributing to the community: what about the file manager? What abotu all the "value-aded" features they claim to provide. They don't contribute it back to Debian. This may be right and may be wrong, but it means that the answer that "we do contribute", as given in the interview is just half the truth.

And this is just one example (but regrding the summary text).

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