Tempests in teacups
Feb 24th, 2008 by lavonardo
In addition to the raging internet censorship “debate” - of which wise things have already been written.
Debate is intentionally quoted above, since argument-wise this is a case of shooting fish in a barrel, and does not resemble a real debate in any way.
In descending order of international visibility:
Fedora vs. dataportability: Red Hat’s C&D-letter to the newly minted dataportability organization has been tackled with an appeal to creativity - OK, so the logos are similar, let’s get a better one, instead of taking it to the court. A wise decision.
Filmihullu vs. hesari: Helsingin Sanomat published a very deep-drilling one pager last friday. The editors of filmihullu let loose a broadside against the whole movie industry (including criticism thereof). Later on, the interviewed trio were not pleased with the tone of the story, and have railed against its publication. I thought the article was on the harsh side on friday, and having had very limited exposure to Filmihullu, relying on other bloggers to provide insight into the situation is the easiest way to understand what’s going on. I’d bet that several letters to the editor will be published next week’s Nyt, but the damage is already done.
Timo Tolkki vs. Imperiumi: Timo Tolkki, the head honcho of finnish power metal icon Stratovarius has launched an unconventional publicity campaign for his upcoming solo album. Usually
threatening to sue people with arguments is doomed to fail. In this case as well, as the claims have already been proven hollow.
