Well, he did sound honestly "yellow" to me. I mean they realy just want rating
and have no clew what this was all about. The "linux thingy" as he said. I
guess it was important to make the linkage from OSS in Israel and HaMakor and
help them know we should at least be consulted in the future. I think this is
one thing that is still not established.
The headline says it all and I guess they felt uncomfortable with beeing so
unprofessional. I mean, they took a very simple description of events and put
it out of contect to have a dramtice headline. The article we responded to
did not include any link to the original article they were supposedly
quoting.
After I looked at the original text in the German newspaper it was obvious
that the real value of the article was that there's a political issue in
Munich, and IBM and SUSE are basicaly now funding it.
If you read what Walla are still saying in the intro to our letter (which I'm
sure they didn't even read) is that there are problems with the project
"after" the migration to linux. The thing is that there ***wasn't*** any
migration and ***no linux*** was installed yet. This is ***pre-RFP***
stage ... very unprofessional on behalf of Walla.
On Thursday 29 January 2004 6:37 pm, Ely Levy wrote:
> this is sort of like saying hey we don't really take you seriously
> and we wanted to make it more laughable no?
>
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem Israel
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, dittigas wrote:
> > 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 Sharf
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > > OK. I understand your explenation.
> > >
> > > 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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