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SubjectRe: *** next draft - press release ***

> > 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.

Well, I'm not sure an analogy is appropriate here, because the
distinction is quite blurred. One could say the opposite, that
"publishers are vendors of books."

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Robert Kiesling
kiesling@ix.netcom.com


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