All I can say is even if I disagree with some of the article claims too (which I do) - to make something productive of this one need to "file" those remarks first and foremost to the Haaretz reporter. Aside of steam-releasing activity here there's not much point in telling in Linux-IL how that article was baised, if this critisizm stays *only* here. This advice is not to "educate" you but rather based on positive experience I personally had with similar case with Captain Internet lately. This experience has not finished yet but have formed clean channels of communication to the captain through which I or we can convey our message.
My suggestion is that if it's important to you to have enough time for it, I would have advised writing something that will contradict their' conclusions yet written in a language that will not arrise their "automatic defenses" against religious linux freaks like us.
Boaz.
I'm sorry, I believe that you are all barking up the wrong tree.
I have personally heared most of the people quoted in this article, and they were not misquoted. This is how they feel! While the reporter no doubt added some of his own bias, this is no more than any other article in the press.
So, addressing the reporter will do us no good whatsover. What we need to do is twofold:
A. Try and get to the people quoted, and find out why that's what they think.
B. Try to create awareness in the reporter's mind that when doing a piece about open source, Hamakor should be contacted as well.
In this particular case, I think that frontal attack will be the wrong thing to do. Doing a frontal attack will only lead to antagonism. After all, the reporter will say to himself, I was only quoting other people. Why are they so upset at me?
Then again, let's face it.
A - this article will make Arie Scope much more restless than us. It is, over all, Linux positive (25% server share worldwide, 35% in Israel, etc.)
B - Let's face it. Wine is NOT ready yet. Not 100% there (and I should know). Neither are some of the other technologies. If you want to do something about it, do, don't talk.
Ideas as to how to position Hamakor so that reporters will contact us for opinions when preparing such articles would be welcome.
Shachar
-- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
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