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At ZDNet, SJVN Apparently Assigned to Cover Microsoft and Proprietary Stuff, Not Linux

Steven Vaughan-Nichols history



Summary: ZDNet recently removed some Microsoft boosters, Liam Tung and Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet's equivalent of the militant Peter Bright), but Steven Vaughan-Nichols is covering Microsoft and barely touches Linux these days (only once in the past 3 weeks); on the other hand, after a period of about 2 months that it was inactive, his personal blog (Open Source Watch) is active again

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