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sendmail.net: Meet the Press
Jan 9, 2000, 16 :15 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (2448 reads)

(Other stories by mark durham)

"At its worst, the star-crossed relationship between the open source community and the tech press inhabits a zone between telenovela and sibling rivalry, complete with spiteful feuds, pointless frictions, and stupid misunderstandings. It doesn't help that everyone involved is, in Lou Reed's timeless phrase, growing up in public - often in more ways than one. Like any comedy of errors, this one generates its share of ironic laughs. It would probably be even funnier if it weren't so annoying to live through, and if the stakes weren't so high."

"But it is, and they are. So, on the premise that things don't have to be this way (there are, after all, one or two clueful journalists out there), a group of open source power hitters and free software aficionados gathered in a room at the Bazaar a couple of weeks ago to discuss Linux advocacy and strategies for dealing with the press. Led by Slashdot's Robin Miller (aka roblimo) and including such front-line advocates as Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond, the discussion was candid and fruitful, though it did give some tricky issues short shrift."

"A disproportionate share of the discussion involved the nature of that beloved but peculiar animal, Slashdot, and its de facto status as "speaker to journalists." While Russ Mitchell of Wide Open News noted that "any reporter who takes something on a mailing list as gospel isn't a very good reporter," Eric Raymond countered that "Wired [News] people do it all the time." Raymond sees Slashdot's irrepressibly crackeresque tone as a liability for open source advocates trying to bring the suits on board...."

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I think that expecting a unified and coh ...   Distributed advocacy   
Jim Flynn
Jan 9, 2000, 18:46:32
 
It's much better than the summary ma ...   Don't read the summary, read the thing!   
Martin Vermeer
Jan 9, 2000, 19:13:31
 
On one hand I hear complaints about the  ...   Contradictions...   
Bobcat Templin
Jan 9, 2000, 19:35:39
 
And so is all that discussion/flamage/wh ...   Slashdot is a living forum . . .   
himi
Jan 9, 2000, 21:12:28
 
Yes there is a bit of rubbish; hell I ha ...   I like slashdot   
charles esson
Jan 9, 2000, 22:06:28
 
I like this article. Yes, we should give ...   Discuss important Linux Perception/PR-ish issues   
Leaf
Jan 9, 2000, 22:20:11
 
Democracy isn't pretty.  Never has b ...   Moderation level three works for me!!!   
dinotrac
Jan 9, 2000, 23:42:40
 
In this whole article there is not one s ...   Scapegoating Slashdot   
bertox
Jan 10, 2000, 00:23:25
 
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