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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Message-ID: <1995Jan18.004341.28827@kf8nh.wariat.org>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 00:43:41 GMT
References: <950116203411@lambada> <D2KBMv.B5t@actrix.gen.nz>
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I might point out that INFOWORLD is a magazine targeted at the folks who buy
DOS and MS-Windows because it's the safe "no-brainer" choice, not because it's
the best environment for the job. Don't rock the boat, and cover your *ss...
I have never been impressed by the contents of that magazine --- it always
seems to be several years behind the times. (Granted, I haven't looked
recently; it wasn't worth wasting any more time on.)
But INFOWORLD's attitude *is* the attitude of those folks. And they do the
buying. And if the old favorite of those folks (IBM) can't break into their
market with OS/2, where are we?
---Assuming, of course, that our goal is to become the platform for mainstream
corporate MIS systems. Is it? I don't think so, and certainly it's not
something the free *ixes are ready for yet.
Meaning that we can safely ignore the INFOWORLD pan. It's kind of like an
early C++ environment being panned by a magazine for COBOL programmers.
[Everything in this article applies equally to {Net,Free}BSD and Linux.
D***ed if I know why the OS/2 folks were included... except possibly for
reasons related to my comment above.]
++Brandon
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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [44.70.248.67] bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
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