Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 18:38:19 +1000 From: Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <32E1DD7B.2EF1@shoal.net.au> References: <199701190518.GAA10148@oldman.steinkamm.com>
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Well lets just find another magazine and give them a few FreeBSD ISP success stories and see if any lights switch on!!! I may be oversimplifying (am ofter guilty!!) but these people seem to respond best to market pressure. I'll be looking for magazines now is Australia and priming brain with suitable ideas for a reader article (all suggestions welcome!!!). Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au Arne Steinkamm wrote: > > > 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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