Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Wow. Just amazing how these guys simply don't care about facts.
>
> Thomas, I feel free to stay in contact with me for your reply, I think
> we should least get the facts right.
>
> I wonder if the US law has a similar provision for a mandatory rebuttal
> in publications as the continental European law.
Hmm. I'd be inclined to reply along the lines that while there is room
for subjectivity and opinion in the article, much of the inaccuracy in
the article have nothing to do with opinion, and everything to do with
blatantly inaccurate factual information .... exhibit A, "no proper fsck
for xfs."
Maybe ask Paul if he *really* doesn't want all the ad imprints from the
millions of slashdotters who will continue to flock to his site? ;)
-Eric
> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Shread <pshread@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:49:14 -0400
> From: "Paul Shread" <pshread@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Linux Filesystems
> To: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxx>, "Henry Newman" <hsn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)
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> Thank you for your response, Christoph. At this point, both articles have
> been heavily debated and dissected around the internet, with people coming
> down on both sides. Henry has been at this for a few decades at a level few
> people can match, so since this is his opinion after working at that level
> for many years, I'm inclined to let it stand as is.
>
> I greatly appreciate your feedback and the spirited debate.
>
> Best,
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:50 PM
> To: Henry Newman
> Cc: xfs-masters@xxxxxxxxxxx; Paul Shread'
> Subject: Re: Linux Filesystems
>
>
> This mail should of course have actually included Paul, sorry.
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 08:49:28PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I guess you're Henry's editor, if not discard this mail.
>>
>> not sure why Henry doesn't want to listen, but I think leaving a lot
>> of the untrue facts on your publication is not a good idea. Any chance
>> we can get a rebuttal listing the facts?
>>
>> I've done a trivial draft at http://verein.lst.de/~hch/xfs-rebuttal.txt.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
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