Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:35:59 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: In (some sort of) defense of Unix-Review Message-ID: <35813CCF.84C9FAE2@softweyr.com> References: <Version.32.19980611150617.00f9d770@m1.gdr.net.au>
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phil grainger wrote: > > Its not much, > BUT they did print it ! > http://www.performancecomputing.com/unixreview/backissu/9706adv.htm > and it does highlight more than just the name. > Being negative all the time about how the world treats freebsd doesn't achieve > much. > Maybe if Walnut Creek put a few lush adds in Unix Review extolling their distro > of FreeBSD, they might suddenly find that freebsd is viable to advocate ;-) > With most of their advertising revenue coming from smaller companies trying to > break into the bigger market, it easy to see why NT is flavour of the year. > They gave samba a nice thumbs up in a review against commercial smb servers. > Samba is at least as important as freebsd in the rise of freeware, open > standards and slowing NT's innevitable domination of the LAN-land. > For those net heads, who think that a T3 is cool, samba pumps out data with a > burst rate of about 8Mbyte a second, 12Mbyte if your on a pII400, ie hard drive > speed. > > All those in favour of 'positive advocacy' say AYE. > > gdr computers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with > "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message Yeah, but that *was* before they became "NT Suckup Magazine." The part I dislike the most is that they cut S.K.B.s word count by about half. His column was my primary reason for renewing my subscription. I'm down to SunExpert (for the "Ask Mr. Protocol" column by M.O'B.) and Embedded Systems Programming, which has never been all that good, but at least has columns by P.J.P., which is information, and Jack Ganssle, which is opinionated (and worth reading). I fear that eventually the only computer magazines on the planet will be PC World, which is about as content-free as you can get, and Gamers World. At that point, I'll just have to leave. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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