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Jeff Waugh wrote:
| <quote who="David Guest"> | |> Is operating system vilification permited under the NSW |> anti-vilification laws? |> http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229893549.html |> |> Really, someone should take the IT section of SMH to task over |> this sort of crap. | | | Ah, c'mon, if someone said the same thing about Windows in an | article, you wouldn't even blink. They had badly put together | systems, now they don't. Could be the same thing either way, and | could be reported the same way. :-) | | We don't get a lot of negative press these days. Even if we did, | the only way to combat it is to make positive press. Ranting about | the bad bits doesn't get us anywhere [1]. :-) | | - Jeff | | [1] Understanding them, and building positive messages to combat | them *does* though.
I agree with you, Jeff, but the thrust of the article was three bogey systems were amalgamated into one and that worked better. Whether that one was linux, windows or other is immaterial. However to then infer that the problem was open source software is illogical. O'Neill rendered no proof that it was.
It is sloppy journalism and that at least should be scolded as such.
David
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