In article <20020514003455.B23612@mango.veggie.com>, frank@esperance-linux.co.uk (Frank Shute) wrote:
Have you got a link to the flamewar on Cix?
Somewhere in the mists of time in the linux conference - I dunno where now, purged it years ago off my personal database! I've heard rumours about RMS >;) However, I will spring to the support of the Guardian in its general reportage - the degree of well thought out articles are one of its strengths IMHO, and its economic reportage has been highly accurate in terms of predictions/outcomes over the last couple of decades. What one generally misses is the sheer mass of basic news reportage anywhere, though. But back to linux - I'd agree, the computing section is a dis-service to the customers, and prejudices aside, one could do a lot better (hell /I/ could do a lot better!) in commissioning stuff that would allow the ordinary adequately educated punter to get a handle on informational technology, and the connections to longer term developments in tek as well as the socio-economic implications of these. To give the G its due, its the only mainstream that has consistently had its eye on the ball with regard to globalisation, but in common with most of the British technically illiterate "ruling class" (courtesy of the Oxbridge cleverly-stupid culture) simply hasn't grasped the manner in which technological developments are becoming pretty deterministic with regard to the exercise of power by dominant organisations.