Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> ____/ Kier on Monday 24 December 2007 09:44 : \____
>> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:44:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> If they talked about Linux, would that be advertising?
>
> There are (at least) two things to consider here. Let's just use two
> examples:
>
> 1. BBC as an agent for a monopoly - the BBC promotes the use of
> Windows with iPlayer (and possibly with Silverlight to come).
>
> 2. The BBC is influenced by a collaboration that involves
> inter-personal relationship. As employee of one company liaise with
> those of another, it's expected that there will be bias and selective
> awareness. The BBC rarely coveres GNU/Linux, _despite_ the fact that
> it dominates supercomputers, devices and it is also the
> fastest-growing platform in servers, mainframes, and even desktops
> (if three independent surveys from this year are anything to judge
> by).
The other thing to consider is that GNU/Linux is Free, Windows is not.
How can it be "advertising" to talk about something that's Free? That's
like saying that talking about the *air* is advertising. There's a big
difference between promoting a commercial product, and talking about a
commodity that is universally free in both the financial and political
sense. Surely Kier should understand that implicitly, which is why it
surprises me that he should even ask such a question.
--
K.
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