BoycottNovell: just another website pushing a point of view
Four days ago, an article purporting to analyse the raison d'etre behind the website BoycottNovell.com appeared on the linux.com site. The author, Bruce Byfield, who styles himself as a "computer journalist", however, failed to tell his reading public that the piece was just a thinly disguised and veiled attack on the person who runs the BoycottNovell site.
Byfield revealed the reason for the article only in the third paragraph from the end. There he wrote: "...especially since in the past I have been mildly demonized by Boycott Novell myself."
Both Byfield and the people behind BoycottNovell concern themselves with FOSS, hence my decision to comment on the article.
There is no problem with a writer seeking to attack somebody who has disagreed with him in print, online or in any other medium. When journalists indulge in such things, they state the reason for the attack right at the start of their diatribe. (Here's a classic example.) They do not seek to mask it behind a lot of verbiage and pretend that they are trying to do the world a lot of good.
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