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On 28-11-2005 18:54:14 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:46:57 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 17:54 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:48:01 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen |
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> | > <brix@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > | A friend of mine just alerted me to the fact, that I am featured |
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> | > | in this weeks Gentoo Weekly News. Odd, I thought, noone had asked |
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> | > | me anything regarding the GWN... |
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> | > |
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> | > Not the first time this has happened... |
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> | |
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> | Not the first time that people whine. Meh. |
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> Yes, surprisingly enough people tend to get upset when they're |
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> misquoted and have their views utterly misrepresented in something |
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> which most users think is an official Gentoo publication. |
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Being quoted: ok |
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Being misquoted: very bad |
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Having an unofficial Gentoo publication on official Gentoo |
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infrastructure: priceless. |
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Seriously: reading the blog entry, I made more or less the same |
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conclusions as the GWN author, but the problem is just that the blog |
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item was rephrased and made 'stronger', whereas the official blog was |
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very careful in wording. (Possibly an attempt by the GWN author to make |
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it more easily readable?) This was just wrong because it was not agreed |
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on with the respective author, hence resulted in this thread. GWN |
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authors need to be a bit more careful with this I think. However, I |
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don't think that GWN authors should need permissions to grab exact |
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quotes which are to be found elsewhere publicly available on the web. |
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It is just sad to see that (what I assume to be) a "running out of time |
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and having no content issue" results in such unpleasant misquote for the |
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respective quoted person. |
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One can criticise the use of newspapers, but somehow they seem to be |
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useful for many people. |
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