How do you feel about AT&T sponsoring LTT at CTIA

thorpj · September 15, 2014

I just wanted to know how everyone else felt about LTT being sponsored by AT&T -a North American Telecom which Linus has commented negatively on several times- at CTIA -a group of telecoms.

I mean usually Linus tried to pick somebody that

A. Won't influence or appear to influence his opinion on products.

B. A company or group that he is fine with being influenced by because he personally thinks highly of their products or services.

However this time it is a company, which Linus has shown on multiple occasions, that he somewhat dislikes and that company is directly involved with what will be covered at the show.

I'm more or less fine with it as I'd like to think Linus has built up a sort of ethos -credibility- with his community and that we need to trust that on some level he takes care to provide content that expresses his honest opinion or an honest overview of a product.

In all likelihood AT&T reached out to @LinusTech to cover the show, and given the opportunity to cover tech Linus didn't want to turn the opportunity or the money down.

Like I said above, I see no problem with this happening, I more or less trust Linus to produce content that expresses his (LTT's) thoughts on products and services which are covered by LTT.

As long as he doesn't take a sponsorship which prevents him from publishing content that speaks negatively of AT&T or positively of their competitors, which I doubt he'd do, I'm fine with this kind of sponsorship.

OUR LEADER HAS SPOKEN:

Luke and Logan disagreed with ATTs classification of broadband as 4 megabits. I trust Linus. I think that a deep dislike-bordering-on-hatred exists in all techies against ISPs, because we know they're trying to shaft us.