From: fyl@fylz.com (Phil Hughes) Subject: Re: Linux Journal -- magazine Date: 28 Apr 1993 03:53:22 GMT
Paul Prescod (papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: In article <C5vCI2.3D3@fin.uucp> chip@fin.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
: >To be in the thick of Linux use, Usenet is the price of admission.
:
: Why does everyone have to be "in the thick?" Can't some be casual
: users?
Exactly. Thousands of people are buying Coherent because it looks (to
them) like Unix. Most of those systems will never talk to Usenet or
the Internet. But those people will learn and the Unix community will
grow because of it.
I have been working with UNIX since 1980. At that time there were two
books on C (one good - K&R and one bad) and nothing on UNIX other than
man pages and the related technical documents. Today the UNIX
community is much larger -- partly because there are magazines and
books available to help people get involved where involved means at
the level they want.
If the Usenet Linux community supports magazines and book publishers
it will grow as well. That growth can mean:
* more people that think Linux/Unix is an alternative to NT, et al
* a market for those who want to develop commercial products
for Linux
* a feeling of accomplishment for those who have worked so hard
to make Linux possible
* a more educated computer user community
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