About the Author

Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett is an author and speaker who leads the web application security practice at OmniTI.

On Being Quoted

I don't think I've ever been quoted before. While at ApacheCon, I went to see if there were any free Cokes left from lunch for Casey and I, and my quest was briefly interrupted by someone from Linux Today who wanted to ask me a question. I agreed, thinking she was going to ask some insightful question about Apache, open source, or something relevant. Nope, she asked me about SCO. How boring.

I basically expressed my lack of interest and indicated that the news from Slashdot was about all that I knew of SCO's actions. What ended up in the article was quite a bit different. The statements attributed to me aren't necessarily things that I disagree with (although I have no idea what four things in Linux I could possibly be talking about), but it is weird having quotes made up and attributed to me. I know a lot of open source developers are quoted pretty often. Is this pretty much the way it goes?

I wonder if Tim really said the things attributed to him in a similar article by the same writer.

I never did find any Cokes. Sorry, Casey. :-)

About This Post

On Being Quoted was posted on Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 03:46:28 GMT.

0 Comments

Post A Comment

Personal Details and Comment

Style Guide

Line breaks are converted to paragraphs. Also use:

  • <a href="" title="">text</a>1
  • <em>text</em>
  • <blockquote><p>text</p></blockquote>
  • <code>2  <?php  if ($foo) {      $foo = TRUE;  }  ?></code>
  1. Note: <code> can be used inline (e.g. in paragraphs) or in a block as shown. Include whitespace and newlines in blocks.

Please enter Chris (my first name) below. This is a primitive spam prevention technique, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Preview and Submit

Upcoming Talks

O'Reilly Open Source Convention

21 - 25 Jul 2008

At Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.

ZendCon

15 - 18 Sep 2008

In Santa Clara, California.

PHP Appalachia

11 - 14 Oct 2008

At Big Bear Lodge, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

New Comments

Amir wrote:

Hi chris! Please check this and guide me: http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8...

Posted in
Nathan Bentley wrote:

Hi Chris, A great tutorial, which should help a lot of people! We implemented something simil...

Posted in
Daniel S wrote:

Just recently I sold my 1.gen Macbook(core duo version). And to be honest, I don't miss it for on...

Posted in Top X List of Mac OS X Annoyances
Buke Beyond wrote:

I agree it is ridiculous that php is doing this. I am using php for generating commands for othe...

Posted in PHP Stripping Newlines
Davis Ford wrote:

I agree, although I have a list of many more annoyances. However, rather than complain about the...

Posted in Top X List of Mac OS X Annoyances

Browse Comments