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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!gumby!destroyer!uunet!email!mich From: mich@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Schuster 8726004 (Dipl Joe)) Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <1992Aug24.171200.10578@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: gipsy.vmars.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA References: <1992Aug1.020513.14170@plts.uucp> <1992Aug1.071226@eklektix.com> <1845@adagio.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 17:12:00 GMT Lines: 31 grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes: [...] >I have learnt to skip Maureen O'Gara's viewpoint of the world a long >time ago, but maybe she's not alone in her views. After all, she's >been working for both publications for at least a couple of years. The fact that someone has been writing for a long time does not guarantee that anything he/she says is worth saying. Take Jerry Pournelle, one of the most widely read columnists (I gather). Apart from his (as he admits himself, subjective) reviews, which I find [found, I have canceled my subscription to Byte since] very interesting, he sometimes expresses views (esp. on politics) which IMHO are completely anachronistic, if not outright stupid, or, even worse, ignorant. >It >would be short-sighted to think everybody thinks the way we do, [....] True. It's just that one has one's limits. Perhaps I've been reading alt.peeves too much. >-- >Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 >LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489 >Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany >*** NOTE ***: Headers are mangled - reply to grog%lemis@Germany.EU.net Michael Schuster -- Michael Schuster | Place the quote: (author, characters ... ) TU Vienna, Austria | "Coincidence was his father and luck his mich@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | inheritance" +43/1/58801/8181 (sometimes) | replies will be rewarded a cookie.