----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: Re: CIO network article
> > Yup. But you can run Linux on that standard processor. The author's target > > audience will (maybe? probably? certainly?) assume that he means that Linux > > can't run "all by itself" on a z900. > > > > No big deal. Just normal press stuff at which to poke fun. > > I think it's a pretty tiny nit to pick at. The key messages link Linux with the mainframe, > leave the impression that it's a thoroughly practical thing to do, and the article closes with > IBM's "unique selling proposition" for the mainframe - that it doesn't break. > > I've worked with journalists for over twenty years - > http://homepages.tesco.net/~Phil.Payne/index.html - and I've been amazed on many occasions at > how close they can get to the nub of the issue very quickly. > > Before you castigate the reporter for a tiny oversight, remember that every article they write > goes through sub-editors who know NOTHING about ANYTHING. I have seen reporters in tears - I > have had reporters call me in advance of publication to apologise for the galley proof > distortions of their stories that they've just been presented with. Ya, sometimes I nit-pick just "because it's there." So, perhaps I should heed this admonishment?: To speak down of others is a dishonest and indirect way of praising oneself; let us be above such transparent egotisms. ...and save my nit-picking for code reviews, where it might actually benefit. -jcf
