[Discuss] Mom! Linus is kicking me!

[pw]

B. E. Irwin wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
>> On 2007-07-13 20:36-0700 pw wrote:
>>
>>> Linus Torvalds Calls GPLv3 authors 'hypocrites'.
>>>
>>> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/07/linux_creator_c.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> Can't we all just get along!
>>
>> Don't believe all the flame-bait you read at information week.  Wish I
>> hadn't given them the hit.  If you look at the original post
>> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/223) the comments by Linus are fairly
>> innocuous although IMO unclearly argued.
> 
> Here's an article that shows how misleading the orginal InformationWeek
> (maybe this rag should be called MisleadingWeek instead!) article is:
> 
> Misleading InformationWeek GPLv3 article
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/misleading_informationweek_gplv3_article 
> 
> .
> 
> Barbara


It's all pretty yellow journalism.
You're quoting 'www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs'. Not exactly an 
*unbiased* source of information.

What I find interesting is how biased technology articles always are,
from a journalism standpoint.

With blogs, in particular, you get someones opinion of somebody else's
hear-say sprinkled with a liberal dose of the authors own personal bias.

The problem with blogs as journalism is that there is no editor
searching each paragraph with a jaundiced eye to ensure balance.
Then again nobody ever accused most media of being balanced
either. Just consider the Asper family regarding balance at their
newpapers [shiver].

To be realistic here this isn't really ground breaking news.
Linus Torvalds has been pretty clear about where he stands
regarding this stuff. Generally it all amounts to a "T'is!/T'isnt!"
exchange.


Peter