Do you actually have to deal with the press of whom you write in any manner?
Yes, as a "Free the Dolphins" activist. I've been doing that for over ten years now. I've learned a thing or two on handling the press.
"Have you ever been interviewed even?"
Again, yes indeed.
Its really quite simple. If a convention researches a story and does not like the intended subject matter of the story, they have every right to refuse to cooperate or provide access.
That depends. At Linux expos, it might have been desireable to keep out some tech reporters who are known shills of Redmond. If the owner of the venue says they can attend, then they attend. Furthermore, if they say that Microsoft reps can attend, then that's that: they attend. I have seen some appalling behavior on the part of some Linux people at these affairs. Name-calling, ill-mannered behaviors, even some nearly physical confrontations with "unfriendly" press and Microsoft "spies". The result? Yet another predictable story about how whacko those Linux users are. If the convention/expo organizers had actual control of the venue as a private property, then, yes, they could keep out whomever they wanted. This hasn't applied to Linux expos. Convention center/hotel owners don't say no to Microsoft. If my experiences as a long-term Linux/OSS person isn't apropos to cons, then I stand corrected. However, concerning the rest of the story, I do believe that it does apply.
To reiterate, Linux people have been there and done that. Their opponents were/are far more formidable than ours. When some nonsense comes out about Fur-dom, it's simply sensationalism to spice up a story. At the worst, it's exploitation on the part of those looking to turn an easy dollar. There is no real malevolence behind it. The Linux Community's opponents were/are out to destroy not just Linux, but the sum total of the OSS community. Furry-dom isn't facing this level of malevolence: those whose main purpose is its complete destruction. First and foremost being Microsoft, and now SCO (possibly with Microsoft's encouragement, support, and/or financing -- no one really knows) with its lawsuit against IBM, complete with allegations that not only did IBM violate its contract with SCO, but also that Linux was written with code stolen from SCO. They accuse Linus Torvalds of having stolen SCO's intellectual properties in order to code the Linux kernel. This is a very real threat to the continuing existance of Linux, and by extension, the Open Source Community.
Want to trade places with the Linux Community: their problems (deliberate, well-orchastrated campaigns of FUD and intellectual property lawsuits) for Furry's (bad reporting, expolitative producers of p0rn)? (I wonder how Eric S. Raymond would answer that, as if I didn't know.) Still think you don't have a thing or two to learn from the Linux Community?????
Do you actually have to deal with the press of whom you write in any manner?
Yes, as a "Free the Dolphins" activist. I've been doing that for over ten years now. I've learned a thing or two on handling the press.
"Have you ever been interviewed even?"
Again, yes indeed.
That depends. At Linux expos, it might have been desireable to keep out some tech reporters who are known shills of Redmond. If the owner of the venue says they can attend, then they attend. Furthermore, if they say that Microsoft reps can attend, then that's that: they attend. I have seen some appalling behavior on the part of some Linux people at these affairs. Name-calling, ill-mannered behaviors, even some nearly physical confrontations with "unfriendly" press and Microsoft "spies". The result? Yet another predictable story about how whacko those Linux users are. If the convention/expo organizers had actual control of the venue as a private property, then, yes, they could keep out whomever they wanted. This hasn't applied to Linux expos. Convention center/hotel owners don't say no to Microsoft. If my experiences as a long-term Linux/OSS person isn't apropos to cons, then I stand corrected. However, concerning the rest of the story, I do believe that it does apply.
To reiterate, Linux people have been there and done that. Their opponents were/are far more formidable than ours. When some nonsense comes out about Fur-dom, it's simply sensationalism to spice up a story. At the worst, it's exploitation on the part of those looking to turn an easy dollar. There is no real malevolence behind it. The Linux Community's opponents were/are out to destroy not just Linux, but the sum total of the OSS community. Furry-dom isn't facing this level of malevolence: those whose main purpose is its complete destruction. First and foremost being Microsoft, and now SCO (possibly with Microsoft's encouragement, support, and/or financing -- no one really knows) with its lawsuit against IBM, complete with allegations that not only did IBM violate its contract with SCO, but also that Linux was written with code stolen from SCO. They accuse Linus Torvalds of having stolen SCO's intellectual properties in order to code the Linux kernel. This is a very real threat to the continuing existance of Linux, and by extension, the Open Source Community.
Want to trade places with the Linux Community: their problems (deliberate, well-orchastrated campaigns of FUD and intellectual property lawsuits) for Furry's (bad reporting, expolitative producers of p0rn)? (I wonder how Eric S. Raymond would answer that, as if I didn't know.) Still think you don't have a thing or two to learn from the Linux Community?????