[techtalk] Fred Moody hooey

[Carla Schroder]

Peace, my friends. There is no doubt the entire article is flamebait. His
purpose is to be inflammatory. I'm a recovering former ZDNet employee, I
know that editors demand outrageousness. Clicks are clicks, doesn't matter
if they are mad or glad.

His sources are counting entries on Bugtraq and "security experts".  He does
not offer much real data. Sloppy journalism.

It is useful to be specific and name weaknesses and problems. That is how
things get improved. Moody's columns are too general to be useful. For
example, when he says the BSDs are more secure and robust, I want to know
the details. I don't disagree, I've heard that from other, better informed
sources who listed the specifics. However he is not consistent, he cites the
open source code of Linux as a major flaw. What about the two BSDs he cites-
FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

Not worth raising your blood pressure over. Flame him and move on.

A more interesting viewpoint from Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera. He says Linux
is a long way from being ready for the enterprise: "In his presentation, he
said, "A single operating-system kernel cannot scale" to all demands and
needs..." http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,2616675,00.html




----- Original Message -----
From: "J-Mag Guthrie" <j-mag at brokersys.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 1:22 PM
Subject: [techtalk] I asked my resident alphageek...


> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:56:54 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie at brokersys.com>
> To: J-Mag Guthrie <j-mag at brokersys.com>
> Subject: Re: Check this out
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, J-Mag Guthrie wrote:
>
> > http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody.html
>
> Oh, okay.  He's the guy who added up all the columns listing defect counts
> for Linux distributions, including "aggregate" and concluded that Linux
> was the "worst operating system ever".
>
> He's got a lot of nerve complaining about people who do "not seem to
> read, understand, or otherwise know how to employ the English language"
> when he adds the aggregate total to all the other columns in the
> statistics to reach his conclusion.
>
> He's also lying in this column.  He said nothing about relative market
> share in his previous message.  He also quoted not ONE "security
> expert" as the basis of his conclusion The conclusion was based solely on
> the total number of defects reported.
>
> Based on the fact that he used "fighting words" in his original message,
> that he doesn't know what he's talking about, and the fact that he lies
> through his teeth about the focus of the previous article, I have to
> conclude that he's a moron.
> --
> Jonathan Guthrie (jguthrie at brokersys.com)
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