There is a disappointing trend in 'mainstream' commentary on open source
projects. This is an example of one.
In the last year of so I have had a lot of experience with poor media
coverage of projects I am either involved in or follow closely. One of the
worst being an all out attack on PostgreSQL by an indian online magazine
resently which seemed to be directed at an entirely different project.
I think the short-comings of this article should be addressed in a civil
manner. An open letter to ZDNet and the author, for example. This could be
posted on the front page of php.net and would probably get coverage on
places such as slashdot and perhaps ZDNet itself. I would recommend
against personal and emotion emails to the author or to ZDNet as has
happened in other cases.
Such an open letter could be arranged on this list or by some of the top
developers. I think it unfortunate that especially in the case of Open
Source journalists are not doing any research -- I say especially because
there is such a large amount of information and support for open source
projects such as PHP.
I would be happy to draft a response if everyone else would like to move
in that direction.
Gavin
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Emmanuel FAIVRE wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2711724,00.html
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> no word to comment that !
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> just see a adbanner for ColdFusion on the same page !
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> Manu
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