Re: Article in Kalamazoo Gazette

[bob@xxxxxxx]

Joshua S. Goodrich <jgoodrich@smc.cc.mi.us> wrote:
>I was just curious if KLUG was going to write back to the editor and give KLUG 
>side....

>  In the last couple of months KLUG has been getting alot of good press from 
>the Gazette. I would hate to see the Gazette go from good press of KLUG to
>just a place where people complain about KLUG in it.  I wish that KLUG as a 
>group would send a letter back to the editor

Mike Nicholas <nicholas@iserv.net> wrote:
>I think an even better response than a retort letter would be a Viewpoint 
>article by a KLUG officer.  Certainly the many positive points and aspects 
>of not only Linux but KLUG could be emphasized.

Since I wrote the letter that is the target of Mr. Starling's attack, and
since I am the Publicity Director of this organization, you can rest assured
that it  will not go unanswered.

At the moment, I am still looking around for some specifics, and have so 
far found the text of the message he wrote, and one response to it, from
Adam Williams, who wrote exactly three lines of text:
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There is exact information about Linux on this laptop at the following 
URL.

{text of the message}

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~he/linuxsolo.htm
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This was posted at  21:03 EST on 14 Mar 2000

Adam sent this reply to Mr. Starling, and cc'ed the KLUG webmaster, which
indicates to me that it may not have been sent to this mailing list at all.
It is not in the KLUG mailing list archive.

It is quite possible that the reply that stirred up Mr. Starling so was sent 
via private e-mail. Since e-mail to "webmaster" goes to a VERY small list,
I ask the people on that list (and you know who you are! :) ) to look at your
own mail and see if you have this message, especially if you sent it! :)

Someone who sits on this kind of resentment (or makes choices about operating
systems based on it), and then writes this kind of commentary 15 months after
the event has clearly not availed himself of several opportunities to resolve
any misundertanding. I'm sure the comment he refers to is taken out of context,
and I will not permit this to go unanswered. The exact form of my reply will 
be a topic of discussion with people at the Gazette, as soon as I can 
formulate it.

If someone can scan the letter and e-mail me a copy of the image I would 
appreciate it.

                                                           Regards,
                                                           ---> RGB <---