Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 12:18:30 -0600 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <199701181818.MAA00541@papillon.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <1535.853468003@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 16, 97 06:26:43 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >> maybe this should really be moved to chat ? > > Done > >> I talked to a German journalist at a trade show last year (from iX, >> one of the better UNIX rags here), and basically told him that they >> had too much of a Linux bent. His reply was basically "we can't publish >> articles we don't have." > > Precisely. > >> 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. > The question is, what are we going to do about it? I'd love to write > articles for every magazine on the planet, but I haven't got the > time. :-( Well, yes, maybe I have that problem. Greg
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