[ILUG] Sunday Business Post Article June 2004

[olearypj at rte.ie]

Quoting Enda <enda at unison.ie>:

> 
> Nial O Broin wrote:
> > Is research no longer an activity undertaken by journalists?
> 
> No.... and especially with regards to the Sunday Papers, its all about
> corporate sponsored articles where you can buy a biased article for
> something like 10K and have it printed without a "health warning".
> 
> I guess every now again it helps to put an article in that supports
> opensource so that the corporates that pay for a different story to be
> printed the following week.
> 
>  -Enda.
> 
> -- 
> Irish Linux Users' Group
> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/
> 
> 
What a pity the writer didn't explain exactly what free means when applied to
opensource software. eg freedom to what you chose with it, modify it, install it
on any number of machines without some multi millionaire demanding a license for
each installation. He also didn't mention the recent AIB announcement or the
fact that most of the latest animated movies were made using Linux, or the fact
that most ISP's use Linux & Apache web servers. The fact that some of the big
guns in the financial world are changing over to Linux has little to do with the
cost & more to do with the security & stability it offers!
Has the committee any ideas about a responce to the Sunday Business Post, might
be a good opportunity to shout about Linux & where it's going in the world.
Point out some of the big guns supporting it eg HP, IBM, NASA, AMAZON, etc...
just a thought.


Pat.

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