The press will believe anything about open source
It's standard operating procedure for corporate PR departments to regularly tell the world that X or Y feature will solve world hunger, establish world peace, etc. It's less standard for the tech press to slavishly repeat such press releases and uncritically treat them as canonical truth. Or, at least, it should be.
Take the case of Canonical's recent pronouncement that it has ended decades of dissonance between competing Linux package management solutions. The lack of thoughtful scrutiny of the claims by the tech press beggars belief. Fortunately, a swelling chorus of critics is rising to put the claims in context, separating the wheat from the chaff in Canonical's attempts to unify Linux distributions.
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