Thank you for pointing this out. Have you sent Biz week your editorial? Here you're just preaching to the choir. Doug
-----Original Message----- From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Business Week Article Shows Linux Gains On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Benjamin R. Mohilef wrote: > This week's edition of Business Week indicates a significant gain in > the use of Linux servers (over Sun and Microsoft) and shows > Redhat as one of the "Winners" in the "Winners and Losers" > column of the article. > > Worth a quick read if you are interested in that aspect of the > software game. sadly, while the articles *seem* to be fairly positive towards linux, there are a couple of stunningly egregious errors that, by themselves, if taken at face value, would cause executives to dismiss linux outright. eg: "Before using open-source software, tech companies must sign a license in which they promise to give away innovations they build on top of it." this isn't just a subtle misrepresentation of the GPL -- it's howlingly misleading, and it's hard to believe that, by now, *any* even moderately competent journalist who's followed the growth of linux could make this claim. another example describes the SCO Group as having hired david boies in order to "press its claims against sellers of linux." normally, i'd just go with "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." but it's hard to accept that anyone could be *this* stupid. regardless of the good deal of positive in those articles, i've dismissed them as just more microsoft-inspired FUD, dressed up to look innocuous. just garbage. rday p.s. and do we really need any more articles describing the driving force behind OSS as "a ragtag band of open-source programming volunteers ... scattered around the globe"? i think not. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
