X-From-Line: nobody Wed Jun 9 11:23:35 1999 To: steve@spore.ca.boeing.com Cc: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO Subject: Re: Second Mindcraft Report? References: <375D51A1.85F4DA26@spore.ca.boeing.com> From: Paul Crowley Date: 09 Jun 1999 11:23:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: steve's message of "Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:12:42 -0400" Message-ID: <87r9nlad0a.fsf@hedonism.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Lines: 29 Xref: hedonism.demon.co.uk misc-mail:1488 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1488 Wed Jun 9 11:23:35 1999 Another good resource for information about the Mindcraft tests is Linux Weekly News, http://lwn.net/ Note that while the report is full of deceptions and misdirections, there's at least one clear, bald-faced lie which can be established beyond doubt. Weiner claims in the report to have asked for help with configuring Linux in more than one "appropriate forum". However, all of the appropriate forums are archived, and some people did a lot of searching and found only one request for help, which immediately elicited requests for clarification that were never forthcoming. Weiner's written quite a bit in answer to critics of the report, but he's curiously never deigned to respond to the commonly-levelled accusation of outright lying even though one or two URLs pointing to an archived request for help such as he described in the report would settle the matter. I conclude therefore that this bit of text was an outright and deliberate falsehood intended to tarnish the reputation of the Linux community. Because this is so cut-and-dried - quote the relevant part of the report, challenge him to quote the URLs - this is all Linus Torvalds, Jeremy Allison, or anyone else need cite as a reason why they don't intend to have their names attached to yet another exercise in bald-faced lying. -- __ \/ o\ paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/paul/ \ / /\__/ Paul Crowley Upgrade your legacy NT machines to Linux /~\ Employ me! Linux, Unix, crypto, Perl, C/C++, distance work... Edinburgh UK.