As someone who works in a minor news outlet (the LA WEEKLY) owned by small media (Village Voice Media), I can attest to the fact that news people don't want to cover the Sklyarov case. But it's not a big conspiracy. It's because they don't get it. They can't understand it. It doesn't make any sense to them. And until the people who control technology learn to explain themselves and their work -- without condescending -- to the huddled masses, big stories of civil liberties being traded away for corporate property rights are going to be ignored by the major news organizations. Which is tragic.
I covered the protests this week (comes out Wednesday night online). My editor told me "don't write for the geek audience." So I didn't. But he put "geek" in the headline, nonetheless.
I'm sure there's a MIDI file for the background music out there somewhere.
Look, to clear up a few misconceptions:
1. I am a woman.
2. I do not knit. At least, not anymore. But I do garden and make soup.
3. I am a very good speller, except for those two words I mentioned in my piece.
4. I love Linux. Hear me, one and all. I love love love love love Linux. Ask anyone who knows me. Of course, all those friends of mine will probably say "Oh yeah, she likes her Lie-nucks box" with a long I, and then you'll all seize upon them like screaming harpies and I'll have to explain why I would associate with such disassociated gearheads. I'd be ostracized. So, nevermind. Don't talk to any of my friends.
5. This morning, I came in to find several messages in my mailbox (Eudora running on Windows, if you must know, which I use with utmost reluctance while I wait for my new system to arrive) warning me that people were saying horrible things about me on/. To my delight, I was not offended at all. As I said to one respectful correspondent, three years ago when I wrote about Linux (in a piece called "The Very PC PC," still up on the Leary website -- http://leary.com/news/feature/Linux.html), I heard not a peep from anyone at all. Now I've inspired a flame war. Hooray for us all. Open source is the future.
Carry on.
Oh, by the way, StarOffice, last I tried it, was a lumbering giant way too cumbersome for any system I run. But I tried WP 8 in San Jose yesterday and liked it fine. Perhaps there's hope. Even for me.
And I'm going out for sushi tonight to celebrate the "Linux is Sushi" analogy.
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As someone who works in a minor news outlet (the LA WEEKLY) owned by small media (Village Voice Media), I can attest to the fact that news people don't want to cover the Sklyarov case. But it's not a big conspiracy. It's because they don't get it. They can't understand it. It doesn't make any sense to them. And until the people who control technology learn to explain themselves and their work -- without condescending -- to the huddled masses, big stories of civil liberties being traded away for corporate property rights are going to be ignored by the major news organizations. Which is tragic.
I covered the protests this week (comes out Wednesday night online). My editor told me "don't write for the geek audience." So I didn't. But he put "geek" in the headline, nonetheless.
I'm sure there's a MIDI file for the background music out there somewhere.
/. To my delight, I was not offended at all. As I said to one respectful correspondent, three years ago when I wrote about Linux (in a piece called "The Very PC PC," still up on the Leary website -- http://leary.com/news/feature/Linux.html), I heard not a peep from anyone at all. Now I've inspired a flame war. Hooray for us all. Open source is the future.
Look, to clear up a few misconceptions:
1. I am a woman.
2. I do not knit. At least, not anymore. But I do garden and make soup.
3. I am a very good speller, except for those two words I mentioned in my piece.
4. I love Linux. Hear me, one and all. I love love love love love Linux. Ask anyone who knows me. Of course, all those friends of mine will probably say "Oh yeah, she likes her Lie-nucks box" with a long I, and then you'll all seize upon them like screaming harpies and I'll have to explain why I would associate with such disassociated gearheads. I'd be ostracized. So, nevermind. Don't talk to any of my friends.
5. This morning, I came in to find several messages in my mailbox (Eudora running on Windows, if you must know, which I use with utmost reluctance while I wait for my new system to arrive) warning me that people were saying horrible things about me on
Carry on.
Oh, by the way, StarOffice, last I tried it, was a lumbering giant way too cumbersome for any system I run. But I tried WP 8 in San Jose yesterday and liked it fine. Perhaps there's hope. Even for me.
And I'm going out for sushi tonight to celebrate the "Linux is Sushi" analogy.
Namaste,
Judith