Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:02:29 -0600 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: arne@Steinkamm.COM (Arne Steinkamm) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <199701202202.QAA00973@papillon.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199701190518.GAA10148@oldman.steinkamm.com> from Arne Steinkamm at "Jan 19, 97 06:18:26 am"
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Arne Steinkamm writes: > >>>> The German magazines seem to think that there are only 4 OSes: DOS, >>>> WINDOWS, NT and Linux. Whenever they talk about a non-M$ OS (although >>>> one can argue that M$ doesn't have any real OS), then it's ALWAYS Linux. >>>> Even the UNIX rags are like that. >>> >>> I think this is our fault more than anything else. As you just noted, >>> if nobody provides them with articles to publish about FreeBSD then >>> the OS world is going to look somewhat smaller to someone in the >>> publishing business. >> >> I don't have a problem with writing articles about FreeBSD. I *do* >> have a problem with iX, for whom I wrote a number of articles >> (including, to the best of my knowledge, the very first article in any >> magazine about BSD/386). I find the people stubborn, arrogant and >> stupid. I have therefore decided not to have anything to do with them >> again. > > Funny... long ago i ask exactly the same magazine about printing my paper > about the BSD Unixes... > And guess what: The answer was: No, all people are speaking about linux, there's > no need for a BSD article. > My answer: You're the press, the people speak about that, what you write... > > Then i asked someone else working in the same publishing house about this and > he said: As long as the Heise publishing house makes it's money with the > linux CDs distributed by it's daughter company e-media, there will be not > much BSD topics inside it.. I don't think that that has a bearing on it. Reducing a magazine's coverage is a bad idea for the magazine, and if FreeBSD gets more popular, Heise will just start selling FreeBSD as well. I still think that it all boils down to inflexible viewpoints (not a rarity in Germany). Greg
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