Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 06:18:26 +0100 (MET) From: Arne Steinkamm <arne@Steinkamm.COM> To: grog@lemis.de Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <199701190518.GAA10148@oldman.steinkamm.com> In-Reply-To: <199701181818.MAA00541@papillon.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 18, 97 12:18:30 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. Funny... long ago i ask exactly the same magazine about printing my paper about the BSD Unixes... And guess what: The answer was: No, all people are speaking about linux, there's no need for a BSD article. My answer: You're the press, the people speak about that, what you write... Then i asked someone else working in the same publishing house about this and he said: As long as the Heise publishing house makes it's money with the linux CDs distributed by it's daughter company e-media, there will be not much BSD topics inside it.. So long.. .//. Arne -- Arne Steinkamm | Mail (MIME): Arne@Steinkamm.COM IRC: Arne Tel.: +49.89.299.756 | URL: http://WWW.Steinkamm.COM/ NIC-Handle: AS306 Robert-Koch-Str. 4 | "There's coffee in that nebula" D-80538 Muenchen | Cptn. Kathryn Janeway, ST:VOY - The Cloud
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