Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 24 January 2008 08:00 : \____
>
>> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> * Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> I don't think you can base the results off the register.... The
>>>> register is clearly anti-ms. I would expect that most of it's
>>>> readership is as well.
>>>
>>> The Register is more anti-bullshit. (Though they produce their own
>>> sometimes.)
>>>
>>
>> In the shill world, everything is either "for" or "against". "For"
>> means it presents the approved Microsoft view, "against" means that it
>> questions things. The Register questions things, which is why, of
>> course, it's read by so many technical people, irrespective of what
>> their choice of software might be.
>>
>> ... and people were asking me why Mr Shelton was in my killfile...
>
> I was going to respond to Tom with a similar argument (no, he's not in my kf).
> The Register it /FINE/. It's honest.
They have a good, even-handed approach. Besides, they quoted me about
ATM standards when the W3C was considering allowing patents into their
standards :-)
Even so, I like The Reg.
>
> Mind highlight...
>
> What happened to the guts?
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
>| mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
>| the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
>| You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
>| issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
>| more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
>| editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
>| since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
>| from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
>| become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
>| 95 like it was the second coming.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
>| advocate for the consumer once again.
>|
>| As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
>| most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| But we're the little guys.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
>
> Not under "FOSS-centered publications".
>
Quite - they stand up to be counted...
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