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From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1845@adagio.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:12:25 GMT
References: <1992Aug1.020513.14170@plts.uucp> <1992Aug1.071226@eklektix.com>
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany
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In article <1992Aug1.071226@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>Thanks to Tom Limoncelli for posting parts of that Unigram-X article.  I
>was able to make the connection to having seen a sample copy of it at a
>Uniforum a couple years ago--is it still printed on yellow paper?? :-)

Well, it's a sort of dull off-yellow. Compugram is bright yellow.

>Now and then I've wondered what would be the trade-press equivalent of the
>US's "National Enquirer"...wish I'd known it was there all along...

In fact, on the whole both it and its sister Compugram (daily) are not
bad publications. Note that they are very timely: they were the first
people to report this stuff (this wasn't the first time they mentioned
it - I found out about the suit from Unigram-X, not from the net).

I have learnt to skip Maureen O'Gara's viewpoint of the world a long
time ago, but maybe she's not alone in her views. After all, she's
been working for both publications for at least a couple of years. It
would be short-sighted to think everybody thinks the way we do, and
maybe this viewpoint is just a rather extreme complement of what the
average hacker thinks of `suits'.
-- 
Greg Lehey                       | Tel: +49-6637-1488              
LEMIS                            | Fax: +49-6637-1489
Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany
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