Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:40:02 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation tools...) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970116123959.00a85ce0@etinc.com>
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At 05:03 PM 1/16/97 +0100, you wrote: >maybe this should really be moved to chat ? > >jkh@time.cdrom.com writes: >> > I really think what FreeBSD needs right now is a tremendous push in the PR >> > arena. For a lot of Sun-heads (a generic term I use for anyone who won't >> >> Absolutely! Not enough FreeBSD users are willing to write about their >> experiences with the OS, and Unix Review, Unix World, Dr. Dobbs >> Journal and ;Login would *love* to have articles of that nature >> submitted. In the last ;Login issue was, in fact, an editorial >> bemoaning the fact that the readership just didn't seem to be into >> providing good articles anymore, and maybe it was time for USENIX to >> stop publishing the newsletter if its readers weren't going to avail >> themselves of it. >> > >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." Magazines won't publish anything unless they think that it is of interest to their customers. You have to GENERATE interest...articles just keep it going and accelerate it. 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. Dennis
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