Just got off the phone with the editor. According to the him, they just wanted to "spice it up" a bit. I explained him that this is an official response of HaMakor and he can not take "creative liberty" and either publish as is or remove. He agreed to edit out Doron's intro.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dittigas wrote:
aka Uri SharfOK. I understand your explenation.
1. Have no idea why my name was initialized
2. The editor took my letter and combined it with some text ("the intro") that Doron Offeck wrote when he forwarded my letter to somone in Walla! 3. Walla then took the Doron's words and attached them to my letter. Which starts off with "Al pi katava ..."
4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is involved and we are trying to get Walla to correct the text ASAP. Mind you, reading their introduction, rather than admit and say "We were stupid enough to publish an article without actually reading the original text (in German)" they chose to say "the Israeli OSS community is furious.", indicates they are professionaly incompatant at least, if not trying to create drama to hide their stupidity.
Hope this will be corrected soon.
My "take away" from this would be to be more careful in whatever is writen in the name
of "Hamakor", lest it will end up the way it did this time.
Whatever Walla's competancy is, that's what I expect "Hamakor" to be able to deal
with. I never implied that they are professionals, just relativelly mainstream.
--Amos
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