InformationWeek opens its mouth to change feet (GPLv3)
ciaran
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Monday 16 July 2007
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InformationWeek have posted a follow-up article. In trying to respond to
recent criticism
about misrepresenting facts regarding Linus Torvalds
and GPLv3,
InformationWeek has managed to show exactly how incorrect their
first article was.
Their misleading GPLv3 article from last week drew criticism for
using false evidence to suggest that Linus is on a new anti-GPLv3
and that Linus's insults are "the latest sign of a growing
schism".
Now they've done something very strange. In their new article
"The Linus Files, Part Two", they've dug up further,
slightly older, insults which Linus has levelled at FSF, and they're
presenting these as some kind of proof that their first article was
accurate. An attempt at a
classic straw man
tactic, albeit executed so poorly that it's backfired.
By digging up older criticism, and being unable to find or provoke
anything new, they've just shown that there is no news to report.
No new phenomenon, no widening of an old rift. You could
even conclude that things are calming down.
UPDATE: I added the first sentence just now because previously there
was no way to find the InformationWeek article I'm debunking.
--
Ciarán O'Riordan,
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