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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:22:55 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 21st Century Unix
Message-ID:  <38D439FF.3AF8D191@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003171212060.44719-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <8b0dio$2718$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>

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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> 
> Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,2457573,00.html
> >
> > Comments, anyone?
> 
> Since you're asking...
> 
> Babble. Just what I would expect to read in an American computer
> magazine and exactly the reason why I gave up on BYTE and similar
> publications a decade ago. (A recent look into a copy of Linux
> Journal quickly showed that there has been no improvement since.)
> A long series of assertiations backed by... nothing. Superficial
> to the point of having no content at all. I don't know who the
> intended audience for this drivel is, but I guess it's not me.
> 
> People seem to be all happy if such an article accidentally proposes
> some points they agree with, but that doesn't make the journalism
> any better.

You're of course right, it was a pretty slipshod article.  Even the
premise rests on pretty shaking ground, given what a slippery moving
target the Linux ABI is.  On the other hand,

	There's no such thing as bad press, as long as they 
	get your URL correct.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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