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title: Get These Facts 4, The Surveyor Affair
date: 2005-03-24T16:13:13Z
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More in my occasional series of counterbalance pieces. The recent press release from Microsoft about a competitive winback against Linux seems a tad disingenuous. Here is [some more context](http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39192259,00.htm) to help you make up your own mind, from Ingrid Marson over at ZDNet UK. Real journalism is about asking tough questions and carrying out multiple interviews to build a stronger story, and avoid becoming a [partisan hack](http://forums.applenova.com/archive/index.php/t-2265.html).

Here are previous Get These Facts entries.
[1](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000335.html)
[2](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000342.html)
[3](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000485.html)

and for those that think i am just trying to give MS a hard time see [this](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000483.html).

Context is everything, as Ingrid knows.