Do not feed the troll
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| Linux people tend to look up and understand technical issues, and even
| legal ones such as the differences between patent, copyright, and
| trademark. If you've been reading Linux sites and software licenses
| for a while, you pick up the basics. And magazines don't hire fact
| checkers any more, and if a magazine pays a columnist less, doesn't
| edit his work, and calls it a "blog" they can hold it to a lower
| standard of quality anyway.
|
| [...]
|
| Please. Do not feed the troll. Comment forms equal hits and money.
| If you must respond, email the publication's editor (be sure to put
| in "NOT FOR PUBLICATION") and post your comments--use "nofollow"
| links if you choose to link--on your own blog or on a competing
| site. The Mainstream IT Media is becoming more and more driven by
| raw traffic numbers, and as editors see good results from trolling,
| they'll tend to rely on it more.
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http://www.techworld.nl/idgns/3327/do-not-feed-the-troll.html
ZDNet has a lot of these flame-then-make-up Linux trolls (/a la/ John
Dvorak).
Related:
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
|
| [...]
|
| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
|
| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969
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