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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:26:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 21st Century Unix
Message-ID:  <200003181926.OAA04866@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <8b0dio$2718$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> from Christian Weisgerber at "Mar 18, 2000  6:15: 4 pm"

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> 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.)

Absolutely.  As advocates in the USA, though, that's what some of us
have to work with.

The only magazine I've found with "content" is Sys Admin, plus
harder-core ones like Dr. Dobbs.  And since I seem to be the FreeBSD
representative to SA magazine, I will readily admit to bias.

> 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.

If this is the best that US magazines can do, then we in the US need
to make it happen more often.  This is a step in the right direction:
a chunk of brightly-colored crap amidst a sea of dull brown sewage.

God help us, ZDnet is fairly well respected by technical managers in
the US.  And they're pretty pro-M$.  The page that says "FreeBSD is
the web server, hands down, no questions asked," should be bookmarked
and loaded into the US advocate's cannon.

Those of you in countries where people are expected to actually
*think*, well, you have harder work cut out for you.  ;)

==ml


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