This is old news, but I just read this particular rebuttal, and I loved the
closing lines so much I just had to post them.
List regulars will remember the, um, discussion [1] last week about Fred
Moody's "Linux Sux Redux" article [2], which had some, um, factual errors in
it. SecurityFocus.com (the people who generate the very statistics [3] Mr.
Moody used!) was so disgusted with his reporting they actually wrote their own
response [4].
In response to Mr. Moody's closing sentence,
As Linux zealots are beginning to find out, it's a lot easier
to masquerade as a better product than it is to go out and be
one.
Ben Greenbaum of SecurityFocus.com replied,
In closing, I propose to the security community and to Mr. Moody
that what is true for products is sometimes true for journalists
as well.
Footnotes
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[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug%40zk3.dec.com/msg05224.html
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody.html
[3] http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/vdb/stats.html
[4]
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/forum_message.html%3fforum=2%26head=2782%26id=2782
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