Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 11th Mar 2006 16:59 UTC, submitted by Richard Kottmeyer
IBM Germany has refuted a Groklaw report that the division has decided to migrate Windows desktops to Linux rather than upgrade them to Vista. Groklaw's story was based on statements reportedly made by an IBM sales executive in a presentation at LinuxForum 2006. This morning, Hans Rehm, of IBM Germany's Press Relations department, emailed DesktopLinux.com the following, somewhat ambiguous, statement.
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RE[2]: Is this really a groklaw story?
by tomcat on Mon 13th Mar 2006 21:25
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RE[3]: Is this really a groklaw story?
by hal2k1 on Tue 14th Mar 2006 13:11
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//Huh? OSNews merely pointed out that Hans Rehm misspoke. I hardly think that that "muddied" OSNews reputation; in fact, quite the opposite.//
Thom Holwerda dropped a doozy of a clanger on this thread.
He let it slip that he believes "unbiased" means something akin to 'post stories both for and against any issue, without comment one way or the other, regardles of their truth or accuracy'.
In short, OSNews editors don't have the first clue about the role of an editor.
This sort of thing will muddy the reputation of a news establishment every time.
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It seems on the face of it that Groklaw was entirely accurate, and concocted nothing.
Hans Rehm (a PR person no less) statement is entirely ambiguous, but it says nothing that I can see that absolutely contradicts what Groklaw posted (which after all was an indirect quote form a representative of IBM Germany). Hans Rehm says in fact the IBM are still "considering it" - which goes two ways. They are considering if they should drop Vista on the desktop - or not). In spite of what OSNews and even DesktopLinux.com claims, nothing of Groklaw's article is refuted.
The only reputations to be muddied here IMO would appear to be OSNews and I'm sorry to say DesktopLinux.com's.
As far as Groklaw and accuracy goes, and not omitting any relevant facts, on this Groklaw page of the story:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060305214231974
there is this update:
UPDATE 2: Note that IBM is contradicting [ http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181... ] elhaard's recollection of what he heard.
Edited 2006-03-13 09:41