Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:42:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <1622.853468974@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:40:02 EST." <3.0.32.19970116123959.00a85ce0@etinc.com>
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[Redirected to -chat, please; no longer -hackers material] > Magazines are a business; don't let them try to tell you that > there's a separation of editorial decision making and advertising > dollars. You're not going to get an article published about how > FreeBSD blows the doors off of SCO if they're getting big dollars > from them. However, this is rarely the problem. It's sort of like complaining that the superpowers are keeping you out of the space race even though you don't actually have any ships of your own, funding, skilled personnel or a place to launch them from if you did. "Ah, but if I *did* have my own fleet of spaceships, the superpowers would resist my efforts to launch them, the power-hungry bastards!" Those sorts of arguments don't really get you anywhere. I've talked with a lot of magazines, some of which have even been known to run the occasional SCO advert, and it's basically just a lack of articles which are holding us back. They'd love to publish them, and the UNIX world is far too short of article-writers at this point for most of the publications to be too choosy. Whether we choose or not to take advantage of that fact is our own laziness at work. Jordan
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