Keep your eyes open and take everything you see in the 'mainstream press' with a grain of salt. Jim Finkle, we now have our eyes on you. Unnecessary drama [PDF warning] arouses suspicion about ulterior motives.
Update: Here is another confirmation (this time from RMS), in case one was needed to show that Reuters was wrong. The previous confirmation came from Peter Brown of the FSF.
If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing
Those of us who actually want to reform the industry and put users in control of their systems/devices will recognise that "Open Source" was selling a lie or got-co-opted by liars