From: talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead? Date: 28 Sep 1992 15:28:59 GMT
In article <bibhas.717685421@femto.engr.mun.ca> bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya) writes:
>This months BYTE screams out asking "Is UNIX dead?".
This bothered me a lot.
> A closer scrutiny
>of the article proved it's just the otherwise.
Interesting. I didn't buy Byte this month, partly because of the crap on
the cover. As such, I wasn't aware of the contents of the article.
> Are these people trying
>to form a public opinion by some kind of a cheap sneaky media proaganda
>or are these people smart as anybody else?
Propaganda? Hell, yes! Look at IBM! Look at Microsoft! They didn't get
where they are by creating great software and selling it cheap! Of course,
there's often a fine line between "Quality Marketing" and propaganda. :}
And yes, these folks are smart, in their own weird, twisted way.
> Are they completely bought
>out or just being responsible journalists to guide the common people towards
>more productive computing.
Well, when I look back at my old (*really* old) issues of Byte, I can see
how much it's changed. It's slanted towards the IBM realm, and touches on
the Mac realm sometimes. On occasion, they'll feature an article on a non-
IBM system, but that's pretty infrequent.
Let's put it this way: when I saw the cover of Byte, I mumbled to myself
"...of course it's not dead, you f*ckhead...". My assumption was that many
a brain-dead executive would read that and think "Hmmm...once NT comes out,
that'll mean the end of Unix!"
Hell, any organization that would voluntarily publish the findings of Jerry
Pournelle...[countless expletives and uncomplimentary text deleted].
> As always perhaps, money rules.
>Bibhas.
Unfortunate, but true all too often.
Just my opinions, folks.
--Brian