Re: [Fsfe-uk] BCS on Open Source

[Rob Myers]

On 07/30/2010 11:18 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> I don't think that the article deserved the response that it got.

It is a woefully ignorant article. Its contents deserves criticism, and 
the BCS deserve criticism for publishing it.

> Also this really wont encourage the BCS to publish other documents,

If the other documents are as bad as this one, that's a *good* thing.

> and if
> they cant publish articles that are critical of Free Software, then their
> journalism serves little purpose and is unlikely to attract a much wider
> audience than it already has.

Why should criticising Free Software be part of the BCS's mission? And 
if it is, why should they not do so with at least a modicum of 
intelligence and understanding rather than simply spreading tendentious 
misinformation?

- Rob.