From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead? Date: 28 Sep 1992 23:39:05 GMT
In article <KETIL.92Sep28210509@spurv.ii.uib.no> ketil@ii.uib.no writes:
>
>BUT: Perhaps we could start letter campaigns to get more coverage for
>free software? Mail a letter to Byte or whatever, ask for reviews etc
>of Gnu stuff, and other free software. Perhaps it would be possible
>to get hardware manufacturers on our side? Now that Dell issues their
>own Unix, how about getting Gateway or someone to give out a
>'commercial' (that is stable and polished) version of Linux, or
>something?
>
I don't know. But I have seen such kind of remarks in comp.os.os2.* groups.
I thought comp.os.linux is the best place for friendly people to talk
about what they get in playing/working with Linux. Such kind of peace
seems to be broken from my viewpoint.
The outside commercial world is really ugly, and whining about it doesn't
help. I am very pessimistic in the magazine coverage of Linux and I
wouldn't do that myself.
With Linux in my 386, I feel satisfied and comfortable (even with the
weekly patch ;-)). I only use my mouth to talk people into our beloved
world without touching any "promotional" terms. I can do the works like
copying for my friends, but I don't expect the commercial world or the
universities to accept Linux, though it is much better than many
commercial Unixes. You can't push Linux to the mainstream world without
money. I'd rather stay in such kind of underground subculture in
the seemingly uglier computer society.
Wen-Chun Ni