More mindless self promotion.

[Evan Leibovitch]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Do they let you check the article after editing it before priting?  If
> not you would essentially risk them putting your name on an article
> where the editing has made somethings potentially say the opposit of
> what you really wanted to say, or potentially make things misleading or
> even wrong.
>   

The worst that happened to me was about a decade ago, writing for "SCO
World" about the relationship between Linux and OpenServer. While SCO at
the time was not the Darl McBride super-nasty crew, it (and its
community) was seeing Linux as a rising threat that needed to be either
defeated or co-opted. Of course, most SCO folks at the time didn't even
know what open source meant -- and when told, could not understand why
anyone would make software that way.

The article was to be the feature story backed by cover artwork,
designed to calm the SCO community and let them know that everything
would be just fine. Unfortunately, I did not write the article that
way... I described how Linux was poised to overtake OpenServer in the
market for PC-based Unix/Xenix/*ix  systems, but that SCO had a supreior
reseller channel that would remain its strength.

My article was almost totally rewritten and they only paid half of the
pre-agreed price for it (and in fact argued that I shouldn't have been
paid at all for what they claimed as a garbage article). It was still
the issue's featured story, and had my name on it, but I'd certainly
never take personal credit for the crap that was printed, that I only
saw for the first time when it came it in print.

Whether or not the issue was worth fighting over became moot only a few
months later when SCO World ceased publication and its publisher dissolved.

Boo hoo.

- Evan

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