Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: draft for review - press release | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:28:54 -0500 (EST) |
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simon writes: > On 14-Jan-99 Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
[Albert's attempt]
> obviously stood far to close to a marketroid :-)
Wally taught me to be shamelessly buzzword compliant. Hey, we could use a bit of marketing here. This isn't for comp.os.linux.announce.
There was a GNOME report that seems to have turned multiple language support (C, C++, Perl, Tom...) into multilingual (French...) support. Technical press releases must be designed to carry useful info even after getting mangled by a reporter.
Kylie Smart's version can be used for all the nerdy places. My version probably made some people _here_ get sick.
> rather good - though you neglect to mention a couple of things: > > - since 2.0.x oracle, creative labs, sun, corel computer,... > have announced support for linux
Where would it fit? Total length and coherence are concerns. It is hard to say "no" to such nice content, but...
> - linux runs on x86, alpha, mips, sparc, arm, powerpc, 68k,...
Save that for slashdot, comp.unix.*, and other nerdy places. Note the use of "PowerMac" (something people understand) rather than "PowerPC" (technical computer innards). Also, Linux can't even run on a bare CPU. Linux requires a complete computer.
> - intel have announced that merced will have a linux port
Again, where would it fit? This is also vaporware, in spite of the certainty. We can't cram the whole Linux FAQ into a press release.
I encourage everyone with decent writing skills to compete a bit or suggest improvements. Were the features presented in the best possible order? Was a sesntence easy to misinterpret or hard to parse?
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