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From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
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: 23 Apr 1996 15:38:45 +0100
Organization: University of Strathclyde
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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/>