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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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