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What Brian said (slightly off topic)
January 08, 2007
Linux Today editor, Brian Proffitt, has written a note on the coverage of Linux and open source that I wholeheartedly agree with:
"Reporters should try to be fair. Reporters should try to be honest. And if they happen to reveal something that is not-so-perfect with Linux, they should be listened to, not ridiculed or labeled as some pro-Microsoft flunky."
Predictably enough, in the comments section of Brian's article, he himself is labeled a Microsoft shill, while someone even suggests that the negative reaction to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' original article (to which Proffitt was responding) might in fact have been posted by the pro-Microsoft lobby to make the open source community look bad.
It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
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