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From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: "386bsd 1.0" - more information
Date: 16 Jun 1994 13:54:43 GMT
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Volker A. Brandt (volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
: In article <3118@adagio.lemis.uucp> grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) writes:
: >iX is, (again in my considered opinion) is only slightly more
: >professional than UNIXmagazin. I used to write technical articles for
: >them, and gave it up because it seemed to be a perpetual fight to get
: >them to print an objective viewpoint: they kept changing my texts to
: >reflect what is presumably their political direction.

: Thanks for letting us know this.  I had always suspected as much; it
: is good to hear this confirmed from an inside viewpoint.

: >On the other hand, (and to show that I don't think *every* magazine is
: >bad) c't magazine is one of the best magazines I have seen around.

: Agreed.  But this recent iX fuckup is just one more in a long
: tradition of writing complete bs about bsd [no :-) here].  When one
: considers the fact that the publisher who owns c't and iX is one of
: the largest German sellers of Linux, the picture comes into focus.
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: Can you say slander of perceived competition?  Ah knew ya could...

Does the Heise Verlag distribute Linux ? Which company, which offer ?

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Andreas Klemm                 /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH 
andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/     andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)