It was P.T. Barnum who famously said, "I don't care what you say about me, but just spell my name right."
So that's our rationale, here at Linux Journal, for enduring a bit of publicity that came our way via the December 14, 2000 issue of The Wall Street Journal. The "Digits" column on page B6 (the Technology Journal page) leads off with a 6-inch item titled "Linux Battles." Normally we scan pubs like the Journal for tidbits about anything and everything that might remotely relate to Linux. But this time the news wasn't just close to home -- it was home. The story was about Linux Journal.
"Digits" is the WSJ's form of UpFront, and shares the same appetite for irony. Unfortunately the irony in question here involved the apparent fact that our modest little online store sold police-style barricade tape that says "Microsoft Free Zone" while the company that actually runs the store, WAS, Inc., was hardly Microsoft-free. It seems that the site was at least partly served up by (shudder) Microsoft Windows NT -- at least while WAS moved its operation onto some kind of UNIX.
We have been working with WAS to hasten the end of this irony, and expect to return the store to an equally Microsoft- and news-free condition.
-- Doc Searls