Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, MJ Ray wrote: > > Tinfoil-hat? It's not as if I'm the only one questioning who owns > > the media these days. [...] > It's not really relevant. [...] the raving of kooks. You have your view, but some of us do think ownership has an effect on editorial

Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
Dave Hornford wrote: [...] > The 'news' was Debian shipped unready & with a security vulnerability. If shipping without automatic detection of security updates is a vulnerability now, there are many vulnerable systems out there. [...] > No one from the mainstream media will read a Debian list for

Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, MJ Ray wrote: Tinfoil-hat? It's not as if I'm the only one questioning who owns the media these days. http://www.freepress.net/ http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/ http://www.openairwaves.org/ and so on. I thought the "page views" bit was obvious. The ownership and ad-base me

Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread Dave Hornford
Mainstream media hears that Open Source is less vulnerable to security risks & ( to the extent they hear anything about Debian) that Sarge wouldn't ship until 'it was ready'. The 'news' was Debian shipped unready & with a security vulnerability. Yes it was,discovered, fixed and every probable u

Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, MJ Ray wrote: > > ZDnet is owned by CNET Networks, which has links to Microsoft > Well so does Bruce Perens if you read the post that started this thread :-) Yes, and Bruce's own explanation of his questionable business can be found linked at http://ww

Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, MJ Ray wrote: ZDnet is owned by CNET Networks, which has links to Microsoft Well so does Bruce Perens if you read the post that started this thread :-) A less tinfoil-hat explanation is that inflammatory stories like this will get tons of page views from outraged Debian

Re: sarge and the Wall Street Journal

2005-06-12 Thread MJ Ray
Martin Schulze wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: > > I'm beginning to wonder what ZDNet have against us at this point... > Not sure, but maybe they're just reading the "wrong" lists? Or > we're just distributing the "wrong" content? ZDnet is owned by CNET Networks, which has links to Microsoft co-fo