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Re: Threats (Subversive and Otherwise) to GNU/Linux Growth

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:26:44 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:17:05 -0000, Rick wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:39:24 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:28:59 -0400, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:18:52 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> In article <13tglk0fge8oe95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rick
>>>>> <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> linux today (linuxtoday.org) has a link to the above titled
>>>>>> article. I was somewhat surprised to see who the author is.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What was surprising?  Roy has written several articles for them,
>>>>> generally of much higher quality than what he posts here or on his
>>>>> web sites--probably the effect of having an editor at Datamation,
>>>>> who presumably requires his writers to be able to at least somewhat
>>>>> back their claims.
>>>> 
>>>> Ahh.. I just noticed that you called him on this before.  He
>>>> submitted his own story to slashdot (not that uncommon of a thing,
>>>> and slashdot has no rules against it, in fact many of said
>>>> self-submitted articles say somethign like "I just wrote a piece over
>>>> at blah... " But instead, Roy submitted it as "anonymous",
>>>> effectively trying to hide his identity as the submitter of his own
>>>> article.
>>>> 
>>>> How is it that someone that someone that has so much vitriol for
>>>> those he considers to be "corrupt" seems to have no problem doing the
>>>> very things that he himself would call a "corrupt" practice if it had
>>>> been Microsoft or anyone else he didn't like doing it?
>>>> 
>>>> Roy's a typical hypocrite.
>>> 
>>> Of course he is.
>>> So far he's been caught using nyms (techguy is one them)
>> 
>> And you don't do that ...
> 
> This is about Schestowitz.

Is it?

> I don't claim anything, one way or the other and I certainly don't
> pretend to be holier than though like Schestowitz does.

Why is it OK for you to do something and not him?

>  
>>> Caught posting
>>> though Mark Kent's computer. Now caught shilling his own articles
>>> under an anonymous source.
>> 
>> What anonymous source?
> 
> Learn to read.
> Himself under an anonymous ID.

Are you referring to the article I referenced?

> 
> 
> 
>>> The irony is if Roy would just tone it down a little and write more
>>> like his Datamation article, IOW learn from the editors who surely
>>> toned it down for him, he could be a decent Linux advocate.
>>> 
>>> But, those kind of articles don't typically bring hits to his hate
>>> sites. Misleading FUD infested subject lines do.
>> 
>> ... and your obsession grows ...
> 
> No, the facts about Schestowitz are coming out a little at a time. Just
> like I said they would.

... and your obsession grows ...



-- 
Rick

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