Messages in this thread | | | Date | 15 Jan 1999 23:24:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: *** next draft - press release *** |
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kiesling@ix.netcom.com (Robert Kiesling) wrote on 15.01.99 in <m101F0s-0000WQC@libsurf>:
> > I don't think leaving a press release to the Linux vendors is a good idea > > in the long term. Competition is a "good thing", IMHO, and the market > > needs to understand that the Linux vendors are primarily "editors"; that > > (most, but not all of) the real work gets done by groups elsewhere. > > I don't think that's accurate at all. Editors are not only there to > catch errors and assign stories, they perform the function of deciding > what makes it into print and what doesn't, according to a number of > criteria. That is nowhere near the role of a vendor or reseller.
Seems to be a pretty accurate description of what the people creating Distributions actually do.
MfG Kai kai@debian.org
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