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The money quote: This rumor stems from a source in Brussels, Belgium, who spoke to Phoronix’s Michael Larabel at FOSDEM, one of Europe’s larger open source con
by forgotAgain 14y ago
The money quote:
This rumor stems from a source in Brussels, Belgium, who spoke to Phoronix’s Michael Larabel at FOSDEM, one of Europe’s larger open source conferences. According to this source, who is presumably one of Microsoft’s open source developers, Microsoft is taking a “meaningful look” at releasing a full Linux port of Office in 2014.
This is as thin as it gets for journalistic sources.
I call BS.
- tomku 14y agoExtremeTech reporting on a Phoronix rumor is basically the perfect storm of over-hyped under-sourced tech journalism.
- tadfisher 14y agoI wouldn't call most tech blogs these days "journalism". A journalist would at least put a little blurb in the story describing their attempt to contact Microsoft and corroborate the story.