Letters to the editor
A seperate Political Based newsletter for Linux
From: | roger <roger-AT-eskimo.com> | |
To: | lwn-AT-lwn.net, letters-AT-lwn.net | |
Subject: | A seperate Political Based newsletter for Linux | |
Date: | Mon, 10 May 2004 15:43:34 -0400 |
I don't know about you guys, but I certainly hate mixing Politics with
the top stories of Linux.
Stuff like, "Is Linux ready for the Desktop", "de Icaza: Rest of World
Will Force US Into Linux (OS News)", "Linux in Defense: Free Software is
Just Too Expensive" is just all a waste of text/ascii in my brief and
explicit opinion.
Can you please post this crap (bluntly stating the term -- some call it
FUD ;-) someplace else, such as a different section. One great idea
would be to use a seperate RSS feed for politics, (titled ie. "Linux in
Politics", etc)
I personally use the RSS feed available within Evolution mail client.
And seeing this political junk just kills my good mood at times. It's
sort of like the press trying to pick a fight (ie MS vs Linux, etc).
Press reports such as this only add some good amounts of high octane
fuel to the fire. It's something would even make good corp executes get
sick of hearing about, enough to push them over the edge as well.
A newspaper or magazine has different sections as well. So just a
thought here.
--
Roger
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