Nikhil Prabhakar wrote:
Hi All,
Just now going through the web I reached a site ( http://www.linux-mag.com) which is supposed to promote GNU/Linux (or at least it seems to be ).I found M$ ads there which were telling people to believe that Windoze is more powerful. This has really disturbed me. What these so called Open Source guys trying to achieve? They are doing more harm to the community. The point I'm trying to prove here is that untill and unless you believe in the philosophy behind the free software movement you will achieve no good.It's like going one step forward and two step backwards.
I remember Linux World(largest selling print magazine for Linux) had adverts by Microsoft on the "get-the-facts" campaign.Why ? LW belongs to a parent body which would have out-sourced advertising to a third-party vendor whose business is to churn out ads from a central server.Most often than not, LW editors/writers would not know what products/services their ad's represent.I presume that's the same case with the linux mag in question.
Again, online(only) magazines depend on a lot of advert-based revenue.No FOSS based projects would advertise,so in this case it has to be proprietary s/w companies.Basically, I see nothing wrong in that.
-toufeeq