Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:26:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <1535.853468003@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:03:37 %2B0100." <9701161603.AA16040@cssmuc.frt.dec.com>
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> 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. The question is, what are we going to do about it? I'd love to write articles for every magazine on the planet, but I haven't got the time. :-( Jordan
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