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From: josco@gaia.arc.nasa.gov (Joseph Coughlan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Date: 19 Jan 1995 19:35:40 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center - SGE
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In article <3flshi$idi$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> Peter Coffee AC6EN <72631.113@CompuServe.COM> writes:
> >>> If I'm a trade rag, what's in Linux for me?
>
>Gee, I guess PC Week wasn't sophisticated enough to think that through.
>We just tried it, found it useful, and wrote several items on it during
>1994 that recommended it to readers who need what it does.  And we didn't
>call it names, either.

In all fairness the LINUX article was not a review.  The guy who wrote
it usually puts comical poems and songs in his columns and freely
comments on many things.  He's no Peter Coffee.
-- 
"What do you want to wait for today?" 
				
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