On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
hehehee well the industry still has a few good men and women left. i hope. > >> 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. inspired by fred noronha and raj mathur, am also turning into a lazy journalist... ;-) just kidding. okay seriously, this needs about 2 or 3 people following up different aspects of this story, full-time. which is why i am not doing this, and besides, was the first one in india to write about this many moons ago in pcworld magazine, though for a opinion-piece column. this would perhaps be a 3 to 5 page story, so am forwarding this to rahul of LFY, and PKR from Cybermedia, to see who really wishes to set an example of excellence in IT journalism in India. regards niyam bhushan >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
