From: dittigas (dittigas_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 29 Jan 2004 - 13:59:54 IST
Just got off the phone with the editor. According to the him, they just
wanted to "spice it up" a bit. I explained him that this is an official
response of HaMakor and he can not take "creative liberty" and either
publish as is or remove. He agreed to edit out Doron's intro.
linux-il_at_amos.mailshell.com wrote:
> dittigas wrote:
>
>> aka Uri Sharf
>>
>> 1. Have no idea why my name was initialized
>> 2. The editor took my letter and combined it with some text ("the
>> intro") that Doron Offeck wrote when he forwarded my letter to somone
>> in Walla! 3. Walla then took the Doron's words and attached them to
>> my letter. Which starts off with "Al pi katava ..."
>> 4. pr_at_hamakor is involved and we are trying to get Walla to correct
>> the text ASAP.
>> Mind you, reading their introduction, rather than admit and say "We
>> were stupid enough to publish an article without actually reading the
>> original text (in German)" they chose to say "the Israeli OSS
>> community is furious.", indicates they are professionaly incompatant
>> at least, if not trying to create drama to hide their stupidity.
>>
>> Hope this will be corrected soon.
>>
>>
>>
> OK. I understand your explenation.
>
> My "take away" from this would be to be more careful in whatever is
> writen in the name
> of "Hamakor", lest it will end up the way it did this time.
>
> Whatever Walla's competancy is, that's what I expect "Hamakor" to be
> able to deal
> with. I never implied that they are professionals, just relativelly
> mainstream.
>
> --Amos
>
>
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