Entire Senior Editorial Staff of LinuxWorld Resigns

Entire Senior Editorial Staff of LinuxWorld Resigns

by PJ

May 14 2005

Senior Editorial Staff of LinuxWorld Magazine Announce Resignations

MONTVALE, New Jersey, May 14 th, 2005 --- The entire senior editorial staff of LinuxWorld Magazine has today announced that they will be leaving the magazine, effective immediately.

The following statement was released by the group. “We regret that Sys-Con Media has been unable to apply a standard of journalistic ethics that we can comfortably operate under. We feel that recent articles published with the consent of Sys-Con Media fail to meet minimum generally accepted journalistic codes, and because the management of Sys-Con Media has failed to acknowledge that the articles are by all informed judgment ethically unsupportable, we have decided we must find other avenues for our work.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: James Turner
turner at blackbear.com
603-552-2020

Dee-Ann LeBlanc
dee at renaissoft.com
(604) 898-8433

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Note from PJ: For background, see the following:

Resignations:
http://turner.linuxworld.com/
http://dee.linuxworld.com/
http://www.braingia.org/webnotes/index.php?title=linuxworld_resignation&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Interview with publisher:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/pills/fuat_kircaali_interview/

I think the reason the SCO saga is so compelling to so many is because it is, among other things, a story about morals.

UPDATE:

A bit more from James Turner here [ http://turner.linuxworld.com/read/1277987.htm ]

And A Publisher's Ethics [ http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/archives/2005/05/14/a_publishers_ethics.php ] by Dana Blankenhorn, and with a picture of Fuat Kircaali

10:45 AM EDT