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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
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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."