From russell at flora.ca Sun Feb 21 09:06:28 2010 From: russell at flora.ca (Russell McOrmond) Date: Sun Feb 28 11:51:30 2010 Subject: [discuss] Most Linux Cafee customers run MacOS? Misquoted in article? Message-ID: <4B813DE4.2080103@flora.ca> Why do I have the feeling that David Patrick was misquoted in http://www.thestar.com/living/article/766513--mac-vs-pc-the-digital-divide I doubt he would be interviewed in a "Mac vs PC" story and only have things to say about Windows and MacOS users. I suspect he would have quite a few insights on us fellow Linux users as well. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition! http://www.digital-copyright.ca/petition/ict/ "The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or portable media player from my cold dead hands!" From bjonkman at sobac.com Sun Feb 28 12:13:44 2010 From: bjonkman at sobac.com (Bob Jonkman) Date: Sun Feb 28 12:14:58 2010 Subject: [discuss] Most Linux Cafee customers run MacOS? Misquoted in article? In-Reply-To: <4B813DE4.2080103@flora.ca> References: <4B813DE4.2080103@flora.ca> Message-ID: <4B8AA448.6000404@sobac.com> David Patrick did indeed have more to say about Linuxy types. From irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxcaffe : ===== (2010-02-20 20:47:58) djp: BobJonkman: it's just embarrasing to be associated with such shabby writing (2010-02-20 20:48:47) djp: mis-quoted out-of-context in a pointless story that was poorly crafted (2010-02-20 20:49:00) djp: and this is after 2 hours of nterviewing (2010-02-20 20:49:46) djp: I spent 20 minutes explaining linux to make sure it was understood that I was for a THIRD thing (2010-02-20 20:49:56) djp: stoopid [...] (2010-02-20 20:52:49) djp: mis quoted (2010-02-20 20:53:19) djp: so I said; (2010-02-20 20:53:34) djp: mac user probably ARE more creative (2010-02-20 20:53:53) djp: Winsows user are more likely to know what's actually happening (2010-02-20 20:54:08) djp: and linux user are more likely to be making it happen (2010-02-20 20:54:31) djp: now THATs a quote ===== There was quite a rousing discussion on the Ubuntu-ca mailing list as well: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/2010-February/006939.html --Bob. Bob Jonkman http://sobac.com/sobac/ SOBAC Microcomputer Services Voice: +1-519-669-0388 6 James Street, Elmira ON Canada N3B 1L5 Cel: +1-519-635-9413 Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting Russell McOrmond wrote: > > Why do I have the feeling that David Patrick was misquoted in > http://www.thestar.com/living/article/766513--mac-vs-pc-the-digital-divide > > > I doubt he would be interviewed in a "Mac vs PC" story and only have > things to say about Windows and MacOS users. I suspect he would have > quite a few insights on us fellow Linux users as well. > From psema4 at gmail.com Sun Feb 28 14:37:35 2010 From: psema4 at gmail.com (Scott Elcomb) Date: Sun Feb 28 14:37:41 2010 Subject: [discuss] Most Linux Cafee customers run MacOS? Misquoted in article? In-Reply-To: <4B8AA448.6000404@sobac.com> References: <4B813DE4.2080103@flora.ca> <4B8AA448.6000404@sobac.com> Message-ID: <99a6c38f1002281137w67f3422bl3b40ad7a8e78429a@mail.gmail.com> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote: > David Patrick did indeed have more to say about Linuxy types. ?From > irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxcaffe : [...] > There was quite a rousing discussion on the Ubuntu-ca mailing list as well: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/2010-February/006939.html Has anyone tried sending relevant information (perhaps including these conversations) to the Star's editor(s)? It might* be worthwhile for them to receive a brief introduction to the issues at hand so they can deal with negative publicity the article is generating in the technical crowd. Just a thought... * Not going to hold my breath, but I am a bit of an optimist. -- Scott Elcomb http://www.psema4.com/ @psema4 Member of the Pirate Party of Canada http://www.pirateparty.ca/