On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:44 AM, das <[email protected]> wrote: > Why you are calling it FUD? This is damn lie. I think you are using > 'FUD' in some other sense that I know: 'fear, uncertainty, doubt'. The > word 'fuddle' is confusing like in intoxication or something. Did you > imply that sense? I think you may not be entirely incorrect there. A > lot of journalists write things in an inebriated state, their articles > more than proving the point, and so you cannot actually blame it when > they write things that goes in the way of procuring more booze. ;)
I call it a FUD because I am befuddled with Mr Doss. His piece has elements of factual inaccuracy, uncertain hypothesis and some doubts about the capacities of Linux systems these days. There are ways to overcome these and, one way could be by demonstrating to him (and, his team) the capabilities of a Linux distribution. Say, sending him a Fedora 10 Live CD. The other piece that struck me while I was rushing about with some work is that the group who might just be very upset with his piece would be the team at SNLTR doing Baishakhi Linux (they did claim some 'firsts' when it comes to Bengali on Linux desktop). As an IT journalist, I'd expect Mr Doss to be aware of community driven projects like OpenOffice.org or, Abiword and, be aware of the extent of Indic support and compliance with Unicode for the applications. Applications/services like Quillpad aren't a desktop replacement, but they have their own market in terms of who can consume them to produce documents. That does not preclude a little bit of fact finding before producing a somewhat biased piece in what is claimed to be widely read English daily in the east. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
