Date: Mon, 18 Dec 95 10:34:54 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: grog@ora.COM Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hubbard's article in BYTE Message-ID: <9512180934.AA02837@wavehh.hanse.de> References: <200012162311.AAA07085@mordillo> <199512171140.GAA17924@ruby.ora.com>
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grog@ora.COM (Greg Lehey) wrote: >Thomas Graichen writes: >> >> by the way - i asked the german iX unix magazine - if they would like >> an FreeBSD article - the man there said he will discuss it in the >> redaction conference - but until now (~two weeks later) i didn't get >> an answer - thus i sent a reminder to the man - maybe eventually this >> may lead to another article (we'll see ...) >I used to write articles for iX, and found them to be some of the most >difficult people I have ever dealt with. They kept changing my texts >to fit their (strange) viewpoint of the world. If you *do* go ahead >with this idea (which I still think is good), make *very* certain that >they print what you write, and not what they think. Exactly my experience. Back in 1992, they hacked up articles of mine in an inacceptable way, even comfusing the CPU cache and the filesystem buffer cache. I wrote two articles for them and both were almost completly rewritten and printed without a single feedback to me. This is almost worse since I have been promised that it would not happen again after the first of these articles. I was in contact with UNIXopen before Lars' article and asked whether then would promise to let me review the last edited version of my artices and the answer was basically "no", although this "no" was about 1 kilobyte long. IMHO, email makes the turnaround time so short that editors could change their mind a bit. If the author doesn't answer within 8 working hours, too bad for him, but give him a change. For now, WWW is the better option for serious publishing of technical articles. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany - No NeXTMail anymore, please. Copyright 1995. Redistribution via Microsoft Network is prohibited
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