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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:5079 comp.os.linux.misc:34045 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76080 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!anshar.shadow.net!anshar.shadow.net!nobody From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 24 Jan 1995 11:47:01 -0500 Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3g3au5$eaa@anshar.shadow.net> References: <950116203411@lambada> <MANOWAR.95Jan17145517@ww.engin.umich.edu> <keving.70.0070BEDF@primenet.com> <D2vqnH.746@spuddy.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: anshar.shadow.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stephen Harris (sweh@spuddy.uucp) wrote: : : >"In fact, Linux users have a dogged enthusiasm for their product unmatched : : >even by thepassion of followers of the, well, the "A" word. (Psst ! It's : : >a machine once sold by a company with a name that sounds something like : : >"commode door" -- wink wink, nudege nudge). : Err, what *is* this magazine aimed at? Can't be commercial users because : this style of writing would soon put them off. And yet they were talking : about mission critical servers. Err, I'm confused! It's targeted at users of the Apple and Microsoft OSes who want to feel like there isn't something better out there. Admitting that the free Unixes might be worth a damn would conflict with the Infoworld policy of kissing Microsoft's ass on a regular basis. They consistently applaud NTs ability to act as a "low cost alternative" to minis and Novell servers (while failing to blast Microsoft for the REMOVAL of the unlimited licensed connections in NT 3.5 which made 3.1 a great deal for file server applications) while saying things like this about the free unixes which have been good NFS servers for a long time before NT was a real project. Really, are any of us suprised when the commercial magazines behave this way? Witness the applause of Unixware 1.0, which I wouldn't let wipe Net/FreeBSD/Linux's bootey. Make it free, get no respect. Make it commercial and provide 0 technical support and a lower quality project, be called "innovative."