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Re: conspiracy theorists and open source

In article <MB7gj.46347$_m.31434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I believe that is an unfair characterization of Roy's activities here
> and at BoycottNovell.
> 
> At worst, he may be guilty of assigning incorrect meaning to certain
> events.  I'm certainly glad he digs up some of the material I've seen.
> Front-office and consumer computing are too important to be left to the
> whims and aims of one too-powerful/too-arrogant company.

I suspect we are going to have to disagree on this.  In his zeal to get 
as many posts as possible, he lets accuracy suffer.  I find accuracy 
very important, because on the internet, the way stories bounce around 
from blog to blog and forum to forum, things often get separated from 
their sources.  It's hard enough for an accurate story to stay accurate 
is at percolates through the net.

Maybe you've seen different, but everything that appeared useful I've 
seen him find that turned out to be accurate (so that it was *actually* 
useful), was something that many others also found, and so came to my 
attention independently of Roy.  

-- 
--Tim Smith

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