Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:47:45 -0800 | From | (Jim Gettys) | Subject | Re: *** next draft - press release *** |
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> From: kiesling@ix.netcom.com (Robert Kiesling) > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 99 14:34 EST > To: jg@pa.dec.com > Cc: fizban@tin.it, GSmart@tennyson.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: *** next draft - press release *** > ----- > > 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. >
Point well taken; a better analogy is that of a publisher, which also selects what set of books to publish and markets the whole set. - Jim
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