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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!SoNet!uknet!str-ccsun!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4liq1l$j44@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4l663t$1ajq@news.missouri.edu> <tporczykDq3C55.4zE@netcom.com> <4l96pm$mrt@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22296 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:838 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3513 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3361 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18119 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47056 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/>