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Re: Times report on Linux: should we respond?

On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:

> On Apr 21, Andy Mortimer wrote
> 
> > First of all, a bit of background. For those of you who don't know, The
> > Times is a fairly well-respected British newspaper, and its technology
> > magazine, Innovations, recently published a very damning article about
> > Linux, based on last month's PCW cover CD, which I believe contained some
> > version of Red Hat. The text of the article can be found at
> > 
> > http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/stiinnsnd01001.html?1129774
> > 
> > but whether this is the full text, I don't know. If I can find somebody
> > with a copy of the Times, I'll compare them and let you know.
> > 
> > My question is, is it worth responding to this as a project? I personally
> 
> As the times magazine is widely published a response would be a good
> idea if we feel misunderstood.  The minimals thing you can do is to sign
> the letter with your name and "a Debian maintainer", I'll do the same
> with a very big computer magazine over here, too, in the next days.

That was my question: is a response even worthwhile? And for that matter,
who has heard of Debian apart from people who don't need telling? If a
response is going to do any good at all, then IMHO it has to come from
the *whole* project, and we need to make an issue of our size and
popularity.

One idea which has been floated on uk.comp.os.linux (I went and checked,
after writing this) was to prepare a well-thought-out article addressing
some of the issues in the article, because let's face it, he does make
some good points. But as it stands, this is going to make our looking for
credibility among the computer-illiterate (ie, managers) even harder than
it is currently.

Perhaps this should go to the publicity list (is there one?)

&E

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