> > Rich wrote: > > On 2009.03.06. 12:40, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Bruno Postle <br...@postle.net> wrote: > >>> It's nice to see some hugin pictures in the 'mainstream media', > >>> gadl's little planets were on the Daily Telegraph site yesterday: > >> What's frustrating is that when I answered to the journalist's email, > >> I raved about how these pictures was built using only free software > >> (with links to gimp, hugin, mathmap, enblend) and shared under a > >> Creative Commons license. To bad he did not mention any of this in > >> his story. > > > > i'd suggest (politely, of course ;) ) emailing & explaining that you > > feel it was an important information lost. > > unfortunately, most journalists tend to be extremely ignorant about > > topics they write - maybe you can get them to showcase another > > weeplanet, this time adding information about creating them ;) > > Ignorant or fearful - many of them perceive CC-licenses and free > software as a threat to their jobs. > > It does not help that Alexandre is employed by a university. An argument > heard too often is that people licensing their work under free licenses > have other sources of income and can afford to "ruin the market" to > those earning their living in the software and media industry. Needless > to state here that the argument is totally wrong. > > There is a lot of (hidden) resentment in the air - similar to the > resentment that call center agents have toward outsourced off-shore call > centers, or the resentment that typewriter-makers and secretaries of the > seventies had toward personal computers. >
Well I think more like BugBear that the journalist just didn't bother much...Actually I feel like it's more and more of a problem nowadays. It seems like everyone calls him/herself a journalist, and sadly quite often the articles are quite limited, contain wrong terms, are based on nothing except other articles found on the Internet... Here I guess the journalist put some nice pictures, because that's what people will look at. As for the text that goes with it, well I guess he just took some of the things written by Alexandre, without bothering explaining some complex terms (what any "real" journalist would/should do, when writting an article for non specialists), and removing what he thought was useless...But reading the comment, it looks like quite a lot of people would have liked to know that Alexandre used Hugin to create the 360-180° panoramas, and other open source softwares... Anyway, Hugin is really great, and I promote it to all my friends ^^ Cheers, RizThon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
