The infotech editor should take the blame also, they should be competent enough and know that inq7 is hosted on "vulnerable platform"
Imelda Marcos - "I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty." On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:08 AM, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If only that journalist bothered to confer with the Inquirer's IT people, > after all they are using FreeBSD and other FOSS, I'm not sure though if they > still use Linux. > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Michael Mondragon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think we should also inform our journalist about Linux. It seems >> that they don't really understand what this is all about. Those >> people will know that we are Linux advocates just for hackers to hack >> their systems? I hope this won't happen again. :( >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, renlux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Can the community demand a public apology for the damage that has been >> > produced by that erroneous news? >> > >> > The Linux community has not enough money to spend for Marketing, unlike >> > Microsoft and Apple. And now here comes the notorious Inquirer with >> > their >> > malicious news to dissuade Linux' small market! >> > >> > >> > 2008/10/10 Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> On 2008/10/10, Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Dong Calmada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> I was also thinking that maybe a letter to the editor might be >> >> >> another >> >> >> way. It will address both the Inquirer editors and writers and the >> >> >> public. >> >> > >> >> > I'm not surprised at all with this. Inquirer.net has a track record >> >> > of >> >> > publishing sensationalized IT reports, the last of which was the news >> >> > that the company I am with is investing P200M to a local startup. The >> >> > P200M is true for sure but its not just for a single entity. >> >> >> >> If you reread the article, you'll note it commits a logical fallacy of >> >> some sort (I need to brush up on my college logic). >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://services.inquirer.net/mobile/08/10/09/html_output/xmlhtml/20081009-165459-xml.html >> >> >> >> The article basically says: >> >> >> >> (1) Website Foo was compromised (hacked). >> >> (2) Server operating systems are easily compromised. >> >> (3) Linux is a server-based operating system. >> >> >> >> Conclusion? Nowhere in the article is it directly mentioned what >> >> server OS the MILF website is running on. >> >> >> >> I think the same thing happened with the Inquirer story about your >> >> company. The article made a great fallacious logical leap that wasn't >> >> justified by the available facts. I wouldn't be too hard on the >> >> reporter though. I once worked as a newspaper deskman, and I know that >> >> sometimes what the reporter submitted bears little resemblance to what >> >> eventually gets published. I suspect that that line about Linux was >> >> inserted by one of the desk(wo)men to make the article look "meatier" >> >> (magmukhang may sinasabi). >> >> _________________________________________________ >> >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > _001101110011011100110111_ >> > >> > _________________________________________________ >> > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael F. Mondragon >> GPG Key ID: F3892203 >> Email: iam [at] michaelfmondragon [dot] info >> Mobile #: +63 929 232 5070 >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > -- > http://jangestre.wordpress.com > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
