Re: Zdnet Article

There is a disappointing trend in 'mainstream' commentary on open source projects. This is an example of one. In the last year of so I have had a lot of experience with poor media coverage of projects I am either involved in or follow closely. One of the worst being an all out attack on PostgreSQL by an indian online magazine resently which seemed to be directed at an entirely different project. I think the short-comings of this article should be addressed in a civil manner. An open letter to ZDNet and the author, for example. This could be posted on the front page of php.net and would probably get coverage on places such as slashdot and perhaps ZDNet itself. I would recommend against personal and emotion emails to the author or to ZDNet as has happened in other cases. Such an open letter could be arranged on this list or by some of the top developers. I think it unfortunate that especially in the case of Open Source journalists are not doing any research -- I say especially because there is such a large amount of information and support for open source projects such as PHP. I would be happy to draft a response if everyone else would like to move in that direction. Gavin On Fri, 18 May 2001, Emmanuel FAIVRE wrote: > > http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2711724,00.html > > no word to comment that ! > > just see a adbanner for ColdFusion on the same page ! > > Manu > > > >