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- From: martelli@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Unigram-X (was Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug11.150106.735@cadlab.sublink.org>
- Date: 11 Aug 92 15:01:06 GMT
- References: <45961@shamash.cdc.com> <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <59408@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia
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- jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
- ...
- :By the way, does anyone have any information on who these UNIGRAM-X people
- :are anyway? Is this a real newspaper or newsletter? Who owns them, and
- :who is their intended audience? It was so badly written that I would have
-
- Yes, it's a real newsletter, and we have been subscribing to it for
- years (it's pretty costly, as most newsletters are). "Intended
- audience" is presumably people trying to make business decisions
- depending on the vagaries of the UNIX(R) and similar markets, more
- specifically in Europe (Unigram-X is published in the UK). So, a
- software house trying to decide which platforms to target with which
- products, which strategic directions to invest in, and so on, is a
- part of what I presume this "intended audience" is; so would be
- consultants or other professionals, other kind of firms buying and
- selling in this market, and so on.
-
- :thought it a joke in other circumstances. "drug-happy hippy-freak Unix
- :culture", indeed! "naive tech-weenies", indeed! Are the authors brave
- :enough to show their faces here and admit to writing this piece of trash,
- :or are they just going to continue lurking about?
-
- The *average* level of Unigram-X articles is better than this, IMHO,
- although, as most newsletter do, rather frequently some of their wild
- rumor-based speculation turns out to have no basis in reality. Still,
- I believe that, over the years, our subscription to it has paid for
- itself as an investment, so although I'm VERY tempted to cancel it
- in pique over this idiotical piece, I think I'll keep my cool instead,
- and keep the subscription, as being in the best interest of my firm.
-
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