Re: [Patents] GregNews stepping up EP lobbying effort

[jm@jmason.org (Justin Mason)]

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Jonas Maebe writes:
> On 16 mrt 2005, at 11:29, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> 
> >> (one of many pro-patent articles found recently in "Linux Insider" --
> >> if you have an idea on what stands behind "Linux Insider", you might
> >> want to document it under http://wiki.ffii.org/LinuxInsiderEn) and
> >
> > Microsoft. Just look at the ads.
> 
> By that logic Slashdot is also just a front for Microsoft and other big 
> companies (like Sun and IBM).
> 
> > It is one of the most well-known Linux FUD sites.
> 
> I have found some allegations about that from Pamela Anderson from 
> Groklaw and people believing that/repeating that, but that's all.
> 
> Note that I also don't like their articles at all and that it may very 
> well be that there's something fishy with that site, but if there is 
> evidence of that please document it on the website above.

I'm not sure this paranoia is warranted -- it's a news site published by
ECT News Network, http://www.ectnews.com/about/ , publishers of E-Commerce
Times.  This seems to be simply yet another tech publications company with
the usual stock of (possibly clueless) tech journalists, aimed at a
management readership, but not necessarily an astroturf operation as far
as I can see.

- --j.
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