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The Standish Group’s VirtualBeacon gives new meaning to FUD

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 7, 1999

If you’ve been following Linux Today over the weekend, you read
an article from the “Standish Group”, which was littered with
groundless mis-informations about Linux. The article was originally
mailed out to their mailing list, and we posted it here. I must
apologize to our readers, but I received this E-Mail this
morning:

    From: Annie Archambault <annie@standishgroup.com>
 Subject: Virtual Beacon from Standish Group
    Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:41:55 -0500
      To: webmaster@linuxtoday.com

I am the editor at The Standish Group and was quite surprised to find that
you have published our VirtualBeacon, which is copyrighted material, on
your Web site. Please remove it at once. The VirtualBeacon is a weekly
newsletter that we e-mail only to our subscribers.  There is a copyright
notice at the bottom of the letter which was removed in the version you
published. 

Chris Cox, the person who e-mailed you the newsletter, is not actually one
of our subscribers. We are contacting BEA Systems in regard to this as well.

I expect to see the copyrighted material removed immediately, as you know
this is illegal.

Thank you,





Editor
The Standish Group
586 Olde King's Highway
Dennis, MA 02638
Ph: 508.385.7500
Fax: 508.385.7522

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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