LinuxWorld Senior Editorial Staff Resigns

sachmet writes "In light of the interview with Fuat Kirccali, James Turner has announced on his blog the immediate resignation of the LinuxWorld senior editorial staff." From the post: "We regret that Sys-Con Media has been unable to apply a standard of journalistic ethics that we can comfortably operate under. We feel that recent articles published with the consent of Sys-Con Media fail to meet minimum generally accepted journalistic codes, and because the management of Sys-Con Media has failed to acknowledge that the articles are by all informed judgment ethically unsupportable, we have decided we must find other avenues for our work."

Comments

Free Software Terrorists... DoS attacks.

[anon mouse-cow-aard]

Folks, DoS attacks are wrong. It's the cyber equivalent of burning a newspaper down. It gives the people (even if they are in the wrong) a victim status, plenty of sympathy from those who don't know about the issues, and shifts to debate to a place where you can't win. A DoS attack cannot be morally supported. If there is hate speech, or a breach of moral codes, then the way to address it is as the linuxworld editors have done, by resignation, or by legal means. IOW, you answer speech with more speech and lawful action.

Hacking is the cyber equivalent of physical war. Anonymous DoS attacks are cyber-terrorism. Someone says something you don't like, so you burn down their business. FOSS people need to help victims identify their attackers and assist, by any reasonable means available, the identification and prosecution of those responsible. Any other action just allows others to tar us all with the same brush.

In terms of debate, and the view of independant third parties, you are just handing sympathy and support to the other side. Stop it.

Journalistic standards!?!?!?

[CarrionBird]

Am I in bizarro world??

Is that why everyone suddenly has a evil looking goatee??