KGX? WTF?

Shawn Gordon shawn at thekompany.com
Sat Jul 27 16:02:48 BST 2002


At 01:18 AM 7/27/2002, you wrote:
>Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2002 23:58 schrieb Shawn Gordon:
>
> > >I don't expect responsibile journalism from the KDE FUD site ;-).
> >
> > FUD site?  You may not agree with what you read there, but *mostly* what is
> > written is accurate and raises good points.  dep has always been a huge
> > cheerleader for KDE from what I've seen, and now that he has his own news
> > site, I see him trying to balance his coverage out by talking about gnome
> > and problems with KDE, which there are.
> >
> > Of all the "journalists" I've talked to and interviewed with since founding
> > theKompany 3 years ago, dep is the only one that has been an "actual"
> > journalist, apart from maybe the linuxgram folks.
>
>Do you really expect fairness and respect for somebody who suggested (because
>of some real stupidities uttered in kde-cafe) that the "K" in "KDE" itself
>might be kind of a mysterious Nazi symbol and the people behind KDE are a
>bunch of raging anti-semites or at least their accomplices?
>
>http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=47

Ah so you are talking about the editorial that referred to the 
anti-american, anti-israel, anti-semite thread in the kde mail lists.  I 
found that whole discussion extremely offensive myself.  However your 
characterization of his opening paragraph is just fantasy from how I read it


>Please let's not waste one more word on this guy here.
>
>Thomas
>
>
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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
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