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LinuxWorld Editorial Machinations
James Turner writes "The editors of LinuxWorld Magazine have been fighting a quiet war with the publishers (Sys-Con Media) for half a year, trying to get hack-journalist Maureen O'Gara purged from their site. Well, with O'Gara's recent vile attack on Pamela Jones (which I won't give any more free publicity by linking to), enough is finally enough.
In my latest blog, I've basically told Sys-Con that it's either her or me. I suspect, given the amount of page views O'Gara's tripe brings to the Sys-Con sites, that they'll choose her." James isn't the only one either.
You're "telling" your employers that you're quitting via a blog? And you're a "senior editor"? Wow. When my employees are ready to leave, they tell me face to face, as opposed to writing it on some virtual diary that nobody reads. Doesn't seem to be a very effective way of communicating your point... something you should know if you're a "senior editor". If they *do* read your blog and take you seriously, I hope for your sake that you have another job lined up.
I don't respond to AC's.
The reason why the story of the atrocious crime was not published is different, though: it's not politically correct to write badly about illegal immigrants. Definitely not in Europe, but apparently, in the US just as well.
Sigged!
You guys just don't get it. The Linux "community" is just a pawn in a big money game between Microsoft and opposing companies. Ms. O'Gara in fact over the years has uncovered lots of underhanded dealing by Sun, IBM, Microsoft and others. She thinks that's its suspicious that a Pamela Jones can overnight transform from someone with no contacts in the computer industry to a leading "expert" in the most decentralized area of the industry, open source. I'd bet that Pamela is funded/a front for IBM or one of the other big money players. The real shame is that the participants in open source development are so dumb.