KGX? WTF?

[leimy2k at mac.com]

Man... the guy who asked about .NET was more on topic than this wasn't 
he??

KDE-cafe better?

dave
On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 03:46 AM, Andreas Pour wrote:

> Shawn Gordon wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
>>> 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.
>
> I have found the inaccuracy and one-sidedness legion, and accuracy,
> fairness and objectivity to be severely wanting.  Some things you may
> consider an "agreement" issue, but I think the difference is largely
> whether your goal is to do harm or report facts.
>
>> dep has always been a huge
>> cheerleader for KDE from what I've seen,
>
> Apparently you have not seen one particular editorial which in my view,
> and pretty much anyone else who has had the misfortune of reading it,
> contains the most ugly, hateful and downright racist writing I have ever
> seen about any FS / OS project, and in its viciousness far exceeds
> anything coming from Redmond or the most obnoxious trolls that have
> visited the dot or other sites I have read (barring perhaps /. read at
> -1).
>
>> 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.
>
> I see absolutely nothing balanced about it.  Your perspective may
> differ, given e.g. the latest story involving you did not even include
> the other side of the story, but then again, it seems to me that
> irresponsibility is the rule there.
>
>> 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.
>
> If by "journalist" you mean to imply professionalism, I could not
> disagree more.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Dre
>