Cogs can think.

Kelly McNeill,

Multiple times have you falsily accused me and Eugenia, and the rest of OSNews’ dedicated staff of purposefully only publishing articles and newsitems that were in line with our own personal biases. As any man or woman who is not mentally ill already knew, this is plain nonsense. They know OSNews is the most unbiased computer newssite on the web.

Another weird figment of your imagination is that your Apple newssite is somehow less biased because you supposedly only publish that what “the greater tech community” believes. However, when I asked you about the details of you Apple newssite, it became more than apparant that your Apple newssite is by no means different than OSNews; with the only difference that we have 120000 readers a day submitting news to 5 editors, and you have roughly 10000 readers submitting news to only one editor, namely, yourself.

That accounts for why your site is exclusively positive about Apple, and exclusively negative about Microsoft. Your own opinions govern your Apple newssite, and anything that contradicts you will not be published, no matter how often it has been submitted.

To illustrate to you why we are about 12 times as big as you are, let me tell you the following. A week ago, my weekly column was about me explaining why I was so fond of microkernels. And lo and behold, today we showed how openminded and unbiased we are, by publishing an article that is a direct attack on the viewpoints I expressed in the said column. Contrary to you, we do not try to stifle free speech on OSNews; in fact, we are open to it, and we encourage people to discuss matters openly– even if our readers have different opinions than we as staff do (and the moments the entire OSNews staff agrees with one another are rare, very rare).

There you have it. That is why OSNews is so much better than your little newssite, and why we will always kick your mentally disturbed ass when it comes to readership.

Thom Holwerda