=?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> It would hardly bear a response if it were an isolated incident, but if > one looks outside the scope of just OOo, then it's about one a day. > Sometimes it's more. ZDNet is not alone. > > This is a perfectly natural journalistic reaction to the hype. There is a yawning gulf between the honesty of the engineers, who will freely admit that OOo is slow and bloated, and must be improved in those areas, and the fanboy / slashdot type rhetoric which assumes that anything open source must be superior to anything else. Journalists don't like being lied to. When corporate PR people lie to them, this is at least accompanied by attempted bribes. When open source boosters lie to them, it it simply irritating. If I wrote about tech stuff more, I would be seriously rude about OOo, not becaseu it is a bad programme, but because the gap between hype and delivery is so immense. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
