Free Software Mag Interviews Sys-Con Publisher

NW writes "Tony Mobily, editor of the Free Software Magazine recently interviewed Fuat Kircaali, founder and publisher of Sys-Con Media. The interview revolves around the recent controversy surrounding the article written by Maureen O'Gara attacking Pamela Jones of GrokLaw."

Comments

My Rights Online?

[Anonymous Coward]

How the fuck are MY rights affected by this stupid controversy?

Seriously, do the editors have any concept of what rights really are.

Re:A Chilling Effect

[jjmartin540]

Am I the only one who thinks that DOS'ing someone's website is crummy and ILLEGAL ? Yeah, I read O'Gara's story, and yeah she wrote some pretty unprofessional, rude, and possibly illegal things, but the hackers trashed LinuxWorld, which only posted the story. In TFA the interview-ee says that its a NATIONALLY-syndicated column, so, even if somone were to DOS a site, why not DOS HER website?

Re:The Credibility of Groklaw

[Anonymous Coward]

Groklaw's credibility has been diminished for very specific reasons, including its censorship policy, hypocrisy and flouting Godwin's law.

Let's be clear: PJ threw the first punch at MoG by publicly accusing her of lying. Thereafter, the Groklaw community regularly attacked MoG in the most vicious and personal terms. If someone was anonymously running a web site attacking me, I sure would want to find out who was behind it.

Re:The Credibility of Groklaw

[Master of Transhuman]

Reminds me of the cartoon where the guy says, "I'm not waiting for my identity to be stolen. I'm selling it on eBay."

But you're selling yourself cheap! Look how much those "journalists" got for selling Bush's health plan! Scores of thousands! Go for the big bucks! Start writing articles claiming Linus is gay! That Linux is actually written by Red Chinese hackers! That Linus is a "foreign terrorist" - worse, a Communist! (Oh, wait, Bill already said that...)

Remember, the bigger the bullshit, the bigger the payoff!

YOU COULD BE PRESIDENT SOME DAY!