Michels Letter to LI Board

Ektanoor writes "Found this today on "Linux Today". Michels "retracts" several earlier citations attributed to him and clarifies his position regarding Linux. " Man - and I thought I have been misquoted (well, assuming Doug was, of course)! Hopefully, this will ease some of the furor regarding Michels supposed earlier comments.

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Misquotation vs. out-of-context quotes

[for(;;);]

Taking statements out of context can radically skew the tone of a comment, but is not strictly misquotation. I recall an article which took some of Linus Torvalds' comments way out of context (I think he called the distro companies "leeches," and there was the "we shall crush microsoft" comment that was blown out of proportion).

The SCO CEO probably did say those things, but they probably didn't have the meaning put upon them by the reporter. It's hard to say anything substational and not be vulnerable to stuff being taken out of context. This is why politicians seem to talk and talk and yet say absolutely nothing.

Are we being a little bit paranoid?

[Edd]

WHy can't slashdot readers (or the majority of them) accept that he has made an apology and get on with life. He had nothing to gain by saying what he initially was quoted as saying (except a lot of bad press) so now he has retracted the statements and apologised can't we just have a big hug and get on wih life?

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Take a look at some reasonable comments.

[diabloii]

At the end of the article there are comments from readers at linuxtoday. I see those as being reasonable compared to some of the things said here.

http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5788_flat.html