Re: article abour Reiser4 on linux.com

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

Andreas Schäfer wrote:
> On 02:28 Wed 09 Aug     , Hans Reiser wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, it's not one of which editors approve. It too easily
>>> looks as though the writer is being influenced by the source. 
>>>  
>>>
>>> If I were to do so, I'd risk being banned from publication. 
> 
> Uhm... interesting. It's not that I have so much experience with the
> press (just three interviews so far), but everytime I got the article
> for review before publication.

> If you didn't trust the source in the first place, why should you
> bother to take information from it at all? If you do trust it, why not
> ask again?

Hmm.  Except in this case, they were summarizing a rather large debate, 
so it's not a question of trusting the source or not, it's a question of 
whether you want to fact-check with every person on reiserfs-list and 
lkml, until you've got the whole thing so debated and watered-down that 
it's meaningless.

Then, too, sometimes it's better to check ahead of time than to get it 
wrong and have to correct later, because people won't always read the 
corrections.