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From: "Kim G. Frei" <kimf@avs.uniras.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:48:54 +0200
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Neil Brendan Clark wrote:
>
> Josh Stern <jstern@primenet.com> wrote:
> >
> >btw - I am not an MS-basher; I am simply appalled
> >by the putrid state and direction of 'journalism'
> >in the U.S. (and probably elsewhere).
>
> Definately elsewhere. I cannot be bothered reading the majority of the
> computer press these days as it is so sycophantic with respect to
> Microsoft - "Microsoft plans this, Microsoft 32bit Innovation, blah
> blah blah". At best they are misinformed or have pen and paper jockeys
> for editors, at worst they don't want to annoy the provider of their
> main advertising revenue.
>
> Notable exception: Wired.
>
> The computer industry is in a sorry state :-(
>
> --
> Neil Clark
> Transparent Telepresence Group
> <http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/>
Actually this reminds me of the mid-80's. IBM held more or less the
same position in the press as MS does today. MIS'es bought IBM equipment
because: "nobody gets fired for bying IBM". It's the same today, except
that the goods are software not hardware. Buy a Unix network with
bells and whistles and if it doesn't run, your out. Buy MS one and it
doesn't matter because "you did the right thing". Everyday you read
- like in the 80's - about companies telling that "we will now use
MS this-and-that and it is an important strategic decission".
Quite funny, everybody seems to be very interrested in being different
and stand out from the crowd, yet everybody buys the same HW, SW,
clothes, mobile phones etc.
You might as well say:
Humanity is in a sorry state :-(
-kim
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