Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:28:18 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I don't even read unix review ... Message-ID: <12107.897647298@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jun 1998 01:01:34 MDT." <358223CE.D366C172@softweyr.com>
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> The decisions aren't as simple as that. There are already a handful of > NT rags, and very few remaining UNIX zines. The argument lies more Actually, just a slight correction to this: "There are already a handful of NT rags, and very few remaining UNIX zines, IN THE UNITED STATES." In Japan, just to cite a counter-example, there are at least 5 major magazines which focus on Unix, at least 3 of them focusing on Unix exclusively and doing an excellent job of it. Furthermore, the very WORST of these Unix magazines look probably 50 times BETTER than any Unix magazine here in the U.S. ever has, even during its heyday. They have full glossy advertisements for Unix products, articles on doing this or that with Unix, regular columns by Unix professionals and essentially look no different than the very best WinTel dedicated magazines here in the U.S. And what's more, at least just judging by the rather generous donations FreeBSD, Inc. has received from some of them, they're quite successful at it. The bottom line is that this really isn't a global problem, it's a U.S. problem. The magazines here have chosen, for whatever reason, to be a bunch of sheep and line up behind the old "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" mindset, also caving in and running away at the first sign that the Unix market might not be expanding as explosively as the NT one. It's screwed up and it sucks and just a bit more of this and I'll be enrolling in a Japanese language course at the local university extention so I can move to Japan and just say adios to this often criminally clueless country. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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