11.17.08
Posted in News Roundup at 6:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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- Is It A Free Speech Violation To Deny Press Credentials To Bloggers?
Well, here’s a case that may interest various bloggers who like to get press credentials to various events. Three “alternative” journalists in New York City are suing the NY Police Department for denying them press credentials, because they work for online or nontraditional publications.
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Victor Stone talks about music, Free Software, Creative Commons and life at Microsoft 03 (2004)
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Linux said,
November 17, 2008 at 10:45 am
BAD PR for Novell !! This is a PR disaster.
http://nfm2008.atps.in/
The event organizers have removed the Novell from list of Sponsors overnight !!
Go Go boycottnovell.com
Roy Schestowitz said,
November 17, 2008 at 10:50 am
Can you confirm this?
I look at the cached homepage from “15 Nov 2008 11:07:16 GMT” and I cannot find Novell there, either.
Roy Schestowitz said,
November 17, 2008 at 10:52 am
Actually, there is not a single occurrence of the word “Novell” in this site, according to Google.
pR@tz said,
November 18, 2008 at 11:43 am
Novell was never there in that page (either the tactics of the organizers to prevent the free software activists from protesting or they had forgotten). I am pretty much sure about this, that Novell wasn’t listed in the sponsors site, if it were, then we (or they), (Anivar, Hiran, Syam, V K Adarsh and other free software activists) would have protested even before the conference.
Linux said,
November 19, 2008 at 3:49 am
There is no way to confirm that they were listed. Most probably they were not.