Open Office was perfectly free to make their own document format, but...
Every word processor, spreadsheet, or presentation package has had their own formats. That's not news.
However, I suspect that OpenDocument may have been meant instead, which is OASIS' Open Document Format for Office Applications. OpenDocument is the work of a consortium of companies and organizations and not the sole work of a single project as implied in the comment above. Microsoft is the only member taking a "wait-and-see" approach to the format. Everyone else, is moving ahead.
If you don't think that Microsoft uses illegal, unethical, and otherwise dubious tactics to preserve their monopoly...
According to the court records, it's not an opinion but a matter of fact going back to before DR-DOS, no matter how much wishful thinking by Chairman Gates fans.
The corrected version:
If you don't know that Microsoft uses illegal, unethical, and otherwise dubious tactics to preserve their monopoly...
TeX or LaTex is used in many fields, especially mathematics, physics, linguistics and economics. (Can you spot the connection?)
Other journals accept or even require PDF -- it cuts down on the MS virus problem and guarantees correct rendering, unlike what you get with the diverse MS Word formats.
Hopefully these new ex-Microsoft execs quit Microsoft to get away from Microsoft's corporate practices.
Even if that is so, let some on else de-tox them before taking them on with Trolltech. Even if the ex-MS employees have good intentions, the culture there at MS will still have rubbed off. And who's to say that they interested in it for anything beyond what they'll get out of the IPO? They'd make money with it even if it went under two months later.
Better to get people who have a safer background when determining life or death decisions for the the company.
That right still exists. It's called Doctrine of First Sale. However, to hear M$ and the MPAA/RIAA/DIsney and all those others in that group go on about it you'd think that First Sale and many other established rules of commerce don't apply to computers. :
Fair Use - the purpose of copyright is to promote science and the useful arts
Common Carriage - if you carry goods or traffic, it has to be available to all
The latter is relevant, since computers are used for communication. That's not just VOIP, but also written communication.
Digital Restrictions Management technologies threaten to remove all of those above, especially if people just sit back and let monopolies or cartels roll over the market.
Just because the conclusion is disagreeable doesn't make it an untruth, glaring or otherwise. In this case, it happens to be correct:
The manufacturing process to refine and synthesis and transform all those raw materials into a computer has the environmental impact of an SUV.
The average desktop computer and 17-inch CRT takes 1.8 tons of water, fossil fuels and chemicals to make. Refinement and manufacturing are resource intensive, especially when high levels of purity are required. For example from the article, "Making a 2-gram memory chip requires 1.3 kilograms (1,300 grams) of fossil fuels and materials." The most effective way to reduce the environmental impact of the manufacture of the unit is to extend the life of the unit.
I realize that suburban utility vehicles (SUVs) are sacred cows, but they are currently the most prominent symbol for waste of resources.
The energy used to operate the computer puts it more in the same class as a refrigerator.
Guessing from your comment, you probably don't live in the US.
In contrast to regions with mass transit where most of a commute can be spent reading, most people in the US must commute by driving their own car to and from work. Though most people don't count the time getting to/from their car and parking, I do: All said, door to door, most commute at least half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon. In larger urban centers, that's easily an hour each way and, in some regions it can be pushing two hours each way.
That's time gone from your life that you're not getting back - even not counting the physiological damage from sitting stationary so much. Audio books are one way of minimizing that loss. Your hands and eyes are free to concentrate on driving while you listen.
I think this is a perfectly valid use for DRM. It allows libraries to offer digital content, without screwing over the copyright holder. It's not like libraries are able to photocopy entire books and lend them out.
Except that it locks library patrons into MS' DRM schemes. MS has been found guilty (even after appeal) of illegally abusing its desktop monopoly to gain entrance to new markets and wipe out the competition. This has been in the courts in both the US and the EU. Libraries should not be helping the criminal element.
Libraries should not go anywhere near MS products, especially its DRM. The Unesco manifest for public libraries contain a number of points including these four:
well informed public
sustainable development
freedom
democratic values
Here's how they tie in:
Well-informed public: Money spend on acquiring, maintaining or
merely operating ICT tools is money not spent on actual information
resources or patron service. In addition to acquisition, maintenance,
operating, and licensing costs (or lack there of) for ICT, the frequency
with which these costs occur is as important as the magnitude.
DRM is simply too tied to a specific vendor / platform / product to be anything other than a cost sink. The data is not in the control of the library because the data format and the codecs needed use the DRM'd data are not. To make matters worse, the actual life cycle of the data formats and codecs is out of the hands of the library, so even if they retain the DRM'd data, it still can expire through lack of tools. And you can't make your own tools either, the EUCD/DMCA make that a serious crime even if the DRM is as simple as ROT-13.
Sustainable development: Historically, Microsoft has used new formats and protocols to drive new sales of software which in turn have driven sales of new hardware. Losing control of the data means that libraries then have no say in when or how to replace hardware or software. That causes problems locally, by hitting the library budget. That causes problems globally by hitting the environment with the discarded carcasses of computers, which are full of poisonous, non-biodegradable materials, including heavy metals. These machines are said to take as much resources as the now infamous SUV to produce.
Simply put, given uniform costs over the years (for the sake of argument), a five year replacement cycle is 40% less load/cost than a three year cycle. A six year replacement cycle is 50% cheaper than a three year cycle. In comparison to a two year cycle, which the vendors are trying to achieve, five and six year cycles are 60% and 67% cheaper.
Freedom: What part about not-Free (as in Freedom) don't you understand?
Interoperability is the basis for freedom in this context. Without adherence to standards, there can be no interoperability.
Therefore, vendors that fail to
follow standards also causes similar problems and vendors that *chronically*
introduce broken implementations of standards, whether as part of an
"embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy or not, should also be avoided.
Vendors that force proprietary protocols, formats and
codecs should likewise be avoided for similar reasons.
Specifically, the vendor in question, Microsoft, seems to have had difficulty following standards,
particularly if the problems interfere with competing products. Examples
include ODBC, Kerberos, and even TCP/IP and HTTP, to name only a few.
Democratic values: Vendors that chronically engage in
illegal and unethical behavior are probably not likely to work towards
support of democratic values either through daily operation in society or
through the capabilities of their products. So far, MS has proven to be one of the worst in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Nothing new, MS has been making crappy software for years, that's why they have such a bad reputation here in the tech community.
MS-DOS stagnated and MS-DOS 4 sucked, until DR-DOS put the fear of god into MS and they came out with MS-DOS 5.
MSIE sucked, and still rather sucks, once they killed off Netscape. Only since Firefox has there been indications of change.
MS Office stagnated once WordPerfect and Quattro were out of the race.
That's just how it goes. That company perhaps more that others, slacks off once they get a market lead. Usually they try to buy out or shut down their competitors (e.g. Borland, Intuit), but OOo is resistant to that.
There'd be no point in bundling a mail client since there are already good ones out there. Here are some very good ones, both open source and closed source:
Of course you have to trust them. Not only were they right about Google being a one hit wonder, but also were spot on back in 1995 about the Internet being a passing fad.
The load times for any non-MS products are slow because MS-Windows itself is slow. The way around that has been to pre-load everything, as has been pointed out by others.
However, it's an uphill battle. I recall reading that non-MS programs are swapped out ASAP while the MS ones are kept in RAM as long as possible. It would be useful to know more on the topic, though I myself neither use nor condone the use of MS-Windows.
I know OO can export to.doc, that would have been a must to consider doing it in OO...
Apparently it works quite well. A researcher I know was co-authoring an article with a colleague in another country and using the edit/revision f.eatures heavily. He started testing OOo along side MS Office for some months without really intending to switch. However, during one session he accidently opened OOo instead of MSO as he intended and only when he finished the revisions, noticed that it wasn't MSO. At that point, he decided it was good enough to be his main word processor.
Sure it's only an anecdote, but it's one that puts another nail in the 'hard to use" and 'incompatible' rants we hear mostly from MS apologists and astroturfers.
It's an uphill battle anyway. The load times for any non-MS products are slow because MS-Windows itself is slow. The way around that has been to pre-load everything. However, I recall reading that non-MS programs are swapped out ASAP while the MS ones are kept in RAM as long as possible. It would be useful to know more on the topic, though I myself neither use nor condone the use of MS-Windows.
That's funny and all, but on the serious side, the "blame the customer" strategy is a common theme in multi-level marketing scams in general, not just the M$ one.
It works, especially now that so much has been done to mystify IT, that's why scammers use it. It's also a lot of bullshit on the technical side. Most of these M$ worms and M$ virii propagate without any user intervention at all. Many also affect patched machines. So the only mistake that the customers are making is using M$ products at all.
A virus is only harmless data, unless your system is designed to run it on sight. If your application or operating system can't live securely in a networked environment then it shouldn't be using IP anyway. Blaming the customer won't change any of that, though it may keep people from considering quality of the software.
How do you factor in the cost of freedom? For example, MS give-aways (like IE) are only free if you ignore the lock-in costs involved. That is why MS has turned a blind eye to the copyright infringement of MS Windows in third world nations (so-called "piracy")...
It's not about the software, though. It's just a vector for the proprietary formats and protocols which keep people locked in.
Think about it, the addiction is to the formats and protocols. If MS actually followed established protocols and standards, rather than "extending" them so they only work on MS, then all this talk about switching would be irrelevant -- you'd be able to use what ever app or operating system does the job.
Open formats and protocols give you a choice in vendors and in the use of your documents. Freedom
Or that the movies I go to in the cinema are influenced by the recomendations of my friends, some of whom are downloaders?
Or that many choose to visit the cinema based on reviews from their friends. Now that everyone has SMS on their phones, it's easy to warn your friends about really shitty films. There were a lot of articles last year and the year before on this. The drop off was something like 40%-50%.
How about facing the fact that not only is a good portion of Hollywood's current business model outdated and destined not to survive the Internet, but that also the films being squeezed out are real dogs that few find worth paying for.
It's possible. But the effects and interpretation of the snub have yet to be seen. China is rather strong now and it does own a fair portion of the US (debt) right now.
If the US backs out or is squeezed out of the area then it will be more trouble for Indonesia and especially it's neighbors, PNG and Aus. I doubt that China, even if it chooses the same politics as the US, can make a seamless transition. A few times only US pressure has kept Indonesia from full invasion/transmigration of both. Of course that statement would get censored in Indonesia...
America has a choice for a short while longer, then things will have too much inertia to be easily improved. Inertia is a boon when it's going your way, but when things go bad or grind to a stop, inertia is a real bitch.
The US military is currently on the edge of being over extended and cannot in practice be used to enforce national policy without some major changes. Right now, it's just not able to take on extra activities without leaving the country "undefended".
The US has been losing it's edge in technology research for a few years. The IT industry has come to a standstill pretty much since 1998 and won't move until MS and others stop being a bottle neck. Recently, Rice was the first foreign minister to blow off the ASEAN meeting, indicating that the US may be preparing to cede the entire Asian economic region over to China. For manufacturing, everybody including the US has already moved over to China.
Dollar hegemony and inertia look to be what keep things going this long. The dollar, however, would become irrelevant if the cost of oil were tied to the Euro. I recall Saddam Hussein including among his threats shortly before he got raided.
If current policies are allowed to continue much longer without intensive corrective action, it may be time to say that it's over for the US.
That's funny but also quite correct. There is a void needing to be filled that opened up when the student unions disappeared from campuses.
Maybe it was university administrations' fear of more protests like in the late 60's. Maybe it was corporatism and greed of the 80's. But take a look at the buildings that originally served as student unions. Many don't exist anymore, they've been knocked down or sold. Most of the remainder are unrecognizable. Sure the shell (fascade?) is still there, but look inside. All the "renovations" have taken away meeting spaces and common areas. They're full of pretty much every thing except for places for students to meet.
Adding more group and social spaces to the physical components of the libraries is a good thing. But don't forget that books and other physical media have been refined for centuries to be convenient, durable and easy to use.
Dude, I realize that as a good person you wish to believe that everyone else is good, too. But here were have a case history to go from.
MS
Team99 is re-forming. This time it is focusing on blogs. With a little effort you can find out what it was doing before. A few weeks before and after the announcement, there were basically no pro-MS / anti-OSS rants. Coincidence. Sure! I believe that. Really.
Although MS has been more careful not to get caught (or squelch news of getting caught) there have been repeated incidents in the past where they have been using people hired directly to astroturf both with paper letters and on the WWW. MS has also done this indirectly, so that people can claim "I'm not working for Microsoft" when they write.
In one notable incident, astroturfing was used by MS' PR firm Edelman
generate newsclips to help Microsoft lobbyists persuade U.S. state attorney generals not to join a class action against the company. In another, form letters from deceased registered voters or voters from non-existent towns flooded government officials to defend MS. It goes on.
Then there is the issue of shills like Enderle and DiDio. People just don't praise MS without personal gain in mind.
Besides, if MS products were so good, then it wouldn't be prohibited in the EULA to benchmark them, right? It's good that Oregon is taking another step forward. This Open Source conference will at least generate discussion of valid issues which nowadays include not only the technical merits of individual tools, but also the methods by which they gain or hold marketshare.
Many thanks. I don't use either of those, but will keep an eye open for things that might break. The general idea of Spotlight is fine, but I want separate indexes for many things and I want it to only index the hierarchies I explicitly tell it to.
I searched around some months ago about how to disable spotlight, but couldn't find anything. I've taken my best guess at it via the command line, but still would like to find an authoritative answer to my question:
How can I completely disable Spotlight?
It's not a feature I want. If I did, then I'd want a completely different level of granularity: several separate indexes of e-mail, and separate indexes for source code, misc projects, and articles. Each of those gets indexed separately.
I seem to have hit a good nerve there or pissed off a grammar fascist.
But, really, why is/. suddenly pimping so many M$ infomercials these days? What's up with that? There is a world of difference between providing facts supporting of a minority view and giving free hand to a shill.
That intro can't have honestly been written by someone who knows anything at all about DiDio's history. What's next? Another TCO comparison written by Enderle to support DiDio? We haven't heard any guff out of him for some while.
DiDio often is written off by the Linux camp as being pro-Microsoft...
That's an understatement. She's written off by everyone as being a paid shill for them both directly and via SCO. Groklaw has more details about DiDio's writing.
... she offers excellent, neutral advice...
C'mon. She's given neither excellent nor neutral advice for her entire career. What universe the writer coming from? Why did the editor let that summary slide?
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However, I suspect that OpenDocument may have been meant instead, which is OASIS' Open Document Format for Office Applications. OpenDocument is the work of a consortium of companies and organizations and not the sole work of a single project as implied in the comment above. Microsoft is the only member taking a "wait-and-see" approach to the format. Everyone else, is moving ahead.
The corrected version:
Other journals accept or even require PDF -- it cuts down on the MS virus problem and guarantees correct rendering, unlike what you get with the diverse MS Word formats.
Better to get people who have a safer background when determining life or death decisions for the the company.
- First Sale - it's yours
- Freedom of Information - strongest in Finland / Sweden, weakest in UK/France
- Fair Use - the purpose of copyright is to promote science and the useful arts
- Common Carriage - if you carry goods or traffic, it has to be available to all
The latter is relevant, since computers are used for communication. That's not just VOIP, but also written communication.Digital Restrictions Management technologies threaten to remove all of those above, especially if people just sit back and let monopolies or cartels roll over the market.
The manufacturing process to refine and synthesis and transform all those raw materials into a computer has the environmental impact of an SUV. The average desktop computer and 17-inch CRT takes 1.8 tons of water, fossil fuels and chemicals to make. Refinement and manufacturing are resource intensive, especially when high levels of purity are required. For example from the article, "Making a 2-gram memory chip requires 1.3 kilograms (1,300 grams) of fossil fuels and materials." The most effective way to reduce the environmental impact of the manufacture of the unit is to extend the life of the unit.
I realize that suburban utility vehicles (SUVs) are sacred cows, but they are currently the most prominent symbol for waste of resources. The energy used to operate the computer puts it more in the same class as a refrigerator.
In contrast to regions with mass transit where most of a commute can be spent reading, most people in the US must commute by driving their own car to and from work. Though most people don't count the time getting to/from their car and parking, I do: All said, door to door, most commute at least half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon. In larger urban centers, that's easily an hour each way and, in some regions it can be pushing two hours each way.
That's time gone from your life that you're not getting back - even not counting the physiological damage from sitting stationary so much. Audio books are one way of minimizing that loss. Your hands and eyes are free to concentrate on driving while you listen.
Libraries should not go anywhere near MS products, especially its DRM. The Unesco manifest for public libraries contain a number of points including these four:
- well informed public
- sustainable development
- freedom
- democratic values
Here's how they tie in:Well-informed public: Money spend on acquiring, maintaining or merely operating ICT tools is money not spent on actual information resources or patron service. In addition to acquisition, maintenance, operating, and licensing costs (or lack there of) for ICT, the frequency with which these costs occur is as important as the magnitude.
DRM is simply too tied to a specific vendor / platform / product to be anything other than a cost sink. The data is not in the control of the library because the data format and the codecs needed use the DRM'd data are not. To make matters worse, the actual life cycle of the data formats and codecs is out of the hands of the library, so even if they retain the DRM'd data, it still can expire through lack of tools. And you can't make your own tools either, the EUCD/DMCA make that a serious crime even if the DRM is as simple as ROT-13.
Sustainable development: Historically, Microsoft has used new formats and protocols to drive new sales of software which in turn have driven sales of new hardware. Losing control of the data means that libraries then have no say in when or how to replace hardware or software. That causes problems locally, by hitting the library budget. That causes problems globally by hitting the environment with the discarded carcasses of computers, which are full of poisonous, non-biodegradable materials, including heavy metals. These machines are said to take as much resources as the now infamous SUV to produce.
Simply put, given uniform costs over the years (for the sake of argument), a five year replacement cycle is 40% less load/cost than a three year cycle. A six year replacement cycle is 50% cheaper than a three year cycle. In comparison to a two year cycle, which the vendors are trying to achieve, five and six year cycles are 60% and 67% cheaper.
Freedom: What part about not-Free (as in Freedom) don't you understand? Interoperability is the basis for freedom in this context. Without adherence to standards, there can be no interoperability. Therefore, vendors that fail to follow standards also causes similar problems and vendors that *chronically* introduce broken implementations of standards, whether as part of an "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy or not, should also be avoided. Vendors that force proprietary protocols, formats and codecs should likewise be avoided for similar reasons. Specifically, the vendor in question, Microsoft, seems to have had difficulty following standards, particularly if the problems interfere with competing products. Examples include ODBC, Kerberos, and even TCP/IP and HTTP, to name only a few.
Democratic values: Vendors that chronically engage in illegal and unethical behavior are probably not likely to work towards support of democratic values either through daily operation in society or through the capabilities of their products. So far, MS has proven to be one of the worst in the 20th and 21st centuries.
MS-DOS stagnated and MS-DOS 4 sucked, until DR-DOS put the fear of god into MS and they came out with MS-DOS 5.
MSIE sucked, and still rather sucks, once they killed off Netscape. Only since Firefox has there been indications of change.
MS Office stagnated once WordPerfect and Quattro were out of the race.
That's just how it goes. That company perhaps more that others, slacks off once they get a market lead. Usually they try to buy out or shut down their competitors (e.g. Borland, Intuit), but OOo is resistant to that.
- Eudora - OS X and Windows
- Mulberry - Linux, OS X, Windows
- Thunderbird - Linux, OS X, Windows
- Mozilla - Linux, OS X, Windows
It's not part of a normal productivity suite anyway.Of course you have to trust them. Not only were they right about Google being a one hit wonder, but also were spot on back in 1995 about the Internet being a passing fad.
However, it's an uphill battle. I recall reading that non-MS programs are swapped out ASAP while the MS ones are kept in RAM as long as possible. It would be useful to know more on the topic, though I myself neither use nor condone the use of MS-Windows.
Sure it's only an anecdote, but it's one that puts another nail in the 'hard to use" and 'incompatible' rants we hear mostly from MS apologists and astroturfers.
It's an uphill battle anyway. The load times for any non-MS products are slow because MS-Windows itself is slow. The way around that has been to pre-load everything. However, I recall reading that non-MS programs are swapped out ASAP while the MS ones are kept in RAM as long as possible. It would be useful to know more on the topic, though I myself neither use nor condone the use of MS-Windows.
It works, especially now that so much has been done to mystify IT, that's why scammers use it. It's also a lot of bullshit on the technical side. Most of these M$ worms and M$ virii propagate without any user intervention at all. Many also affect patched machines. So the only mistake that the customers are making is using M$ products at all.
A virus is only harmless data, unless your system is designed to run it on sight. If your application or operating system can't live securely in a networked environment then it shouldn't be using IP anyway. Blaming the customer won't change any of that, though it may keep people from considering quality of the software.
Think about it, the addiction is to the formats and protocols. If MS actually followed established protocols and standards, rather than "extending" them so they only work on MS, then all this talk about switching would be irrelevant -- you'd be able to use what ever app or operating system does the job.
Open formats and protocols give you a choice in vendors and in the use of your documents. Freedom
How about facing the fact that not only is a good portion of Hollywood's current business model outdated and destined not to survive the Internet, but that also the films being squeezed out are real dogs that few find worth paying for.
If the US backs out or is squeezed out of the area then it will be more trouble for Indonesia and especially it's neighbors, PNG and Aus. I doubt that China, even if it chooses the same politics as the US, can make a seamless transition. A few times only US pressure has kept Indonesia from full invasion/transmigration of both. Of course that statement would get censored in Indonesia...
The US military is currently on the edge of being over extended and cannot in practice be used to enforce national policy without some major changes. Right now, it's just not able to take on extra activities without leaving the country "undefended".
The US has been losing it's edge in technology research for a few years. The IT industry has come to a standstill pretty much since 1998 and won't move until MS and others stop being a bottle neck. Recently, Rice was the first foreign minister to blow off the ASEAN meeting, indicating that the US may be preparing to cede the entire Asian economic region over to China. For manufacturing, everybody including the US has already moved over to China.
Dollar hegemony and inertia look to be what keep things going this long. The dollar, however, would become irrelevant if the cost of oil were tied to the Euro. I recall Saddam Hussein including among his threats shortly before he got raided.
If current policies are allowed to continue much longer without intensive corrective action, it may be time to say that it's over for the US.
Maybe it was university administrations' fear of more protests like in the late 60's. Maybe it was corporatism and greed of the 80's. But take a look at the buildings that originally served as student unions. Many don't exist anymore, they've been knocked down or sold. Most of the remainder are unrecognizable. Sure the shell (fascade?) is still there, but look inside. All the "renovations" have taken away meeting spaces and common areas. They're full of pretty much every thing except for places for students to meet.
Adding more group and social spaces to the physical components of the libraries is a good thing. But don't forget that books and other physical media have been refined for centuries to be convenient, durable and easy to use.
MS Team99 is re-forming. This time it is focusing on blogs. With a little effort you can find out what it was doing before. A few weeks before and after the announcement, there were basically no pro-MS / anti-OSS rants. Coincidence. Sure! I believe that. Really.
Although MS has been more careful not to get caught (or squelch news of getting caught) there have been repeated incidents in the past where they have been using people hired directly to astroturf both with paper letters and on the WWW. MS has also done this indirectly, so that people can claim "I'm not working for Microsoft" when they write.
In one notable incident, astroturfing was used by MS' PR firm Edelman generate newsclips to help Microsoft lobbyists persuade U.S. state attorney generals not to join a class action against the company. In another, form letters from deceased registered voters or voters from non-existent towns flooded government officials to defend MS. It goes on.
Then there is the issue of shills like Enderle and DiDio. People just don't praise MS without personal gain in mind.
Besides, if MS products were so good, then it wouldn't be prohibited in the EULA to benchmark them, right? It's good that Oregon is taking another step forward. This Open Source conference will at least generate discussion of valid issues which nowadays include not only the technical merits of individual tools, but also the methods by which they gain or hold marketshare.
Many thanks. I don't use either of those, but will keep an eye open for things that might break. The general idea of Spotlight is fine, but I want separate indexes for many things and I want it to only index the hierarchies I explicitly tell it to.
How can I completely disable Spotlight?
It's not a feature I want. If I did, then I'd want a completely different level of granularity: several separate indexes of e-mail, and separate indexes for source code, misc projects, and articles. Each of those gets indexed separately.
But, really, why is /. suddenly pimping so many M$ infomercials these days? What's up with that? There is a world of difference between providing facts supporting of a minority view and giving free hand to a shill.
That intro can't have honestly been written by someone who knows anything at all about DiDio's history. What's next? Another TCO comparison written by Enderle to support DiDio? We haven't heard any guff out of him for some while.
That's an understatement. She's written off by everyone as being a paid shill for them both directly and via SCO. Groklaw has more details about DiDio's writing. C'mon. She's given neither excellent nor neutral advice for her entire career. What universe the writer coming from? Why did the editor let that summary slide?