>> John Madden wrote: >> > >> > However, the jerk from Zdnet that wrote an article today saying >> > 'open source has yet to produce any goods' got a lesson in manners. =) > >Heh, this guy's up on /. now... > >John > > Has anybody else figured out that Mr. Taschek and the other hacks at ZDNet have a hit quota that must be maintained if they want to keep their jobs? I read the article twice and, as Technocracy's token English major, I feel compelled to point out that his rhetoric and logic are actually even more flawed than his clearly unresearched "information" about open source -- read it again carefully and you'll start to see that he hasn't even really convinced himself. The only possible reason that a "professional" writer would produce a piece of crap like this was in the _hope_ that he would get slashdotted so he could hit his quota for the month. Since his plan was a huge success (not only was he slashdotted, he was...what, "technocrashed"?), you can bet he'll be back again next week with a fresh, new steaming pile for us all. I'd like to see /. start putting up lists of "pages to ignore"; maybe then we could weed out some of this crap and get down to some interesting discussion. TVB