[ILUG] [Fwd: Linux on TV3]

[Noel Carroll]

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:04:31PM +0000, Gerard J Keating wrote:
> > Cormac McClean wrote:
> > >> But I'm outraged by TV3's choice of speakers lined up 
> from the program
> > Why?
> > It looks like they went for a speaker from both sides of 
> the fence. Agenda is a
> > news/current affairs program not a propaganda vehicle for linux..
> 
> first of all, no they didn't get speakers from "both" sides 
> of the fence.
> they got two marketting people and no one from the linux 
> development or
> user community.
> 
> second of all, "both?"  i know it's messy and hard to deal with, but
> there are more then two sides to practically any interesting story.
> 
> i have to agree with cormac.  i'm not exactly outraged, but i am
> dissappointed.  tv3 dug deep enough to think of a story on linux,
> and then did it in a half-assed manner.  that seems like wasted
> effort and a missed opportunity.
> 
Yeah but Kevin, its a business program.  I saw it a few times before and
they never really get into a non-business side (I'm open to contradiction
here, not being a regular viewer of TV3 and consequently not this program).
Linux has become a business and its a timely current issue given the recent
court cases and especially so in the light of the guy who was prosecuted in
Cork this week for pirating software.  Its  the financial and legal
arguments for open v. licenced software and I can't see the debate getting
beyond that.