On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Linux Lingam wrote:
> [snip]
>
>
>  >  Meanwhile try to get a story posted on slashdot.
>
>
>  in the days of sincere and professional journalism,
>  newspapers and magazines would get their journalists to get on the
>  phone, and/or chase down legal experts, and industry experts, to get a
>  multi-dimensional, unbiased, investigative report, with citations,
>  references, documentation, and basically, hard-nosed journalism
>  at-work.

Industry experts?  As in folks from Infosys, Wipro, HCL, TCS, NASSCOM, ...?
Same folks who genuflected before MS and voted for OOXML?

>  Express Computer, LinuxForYou, PCQuest, DataQuest, PCWorld, Chip, Digit....
>  The Hindu, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Economic Times...
>
>  i *wonder* who among them understand the news-worthiness of this
>  story, and appreciate the due-diligence and persistence required to
>  handle this story?

You do.  And you are a journalist.  And I am not kidding.

>  freedom of the press
>  is not too different
>  from freedom in software.
>
>  or is Lenovo or microsoft or <placeholder> more important as an advertiser?

Rahul from LFY can help us get an insight into this.

-- Manish

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