Re: *** next draft - press release ***
Jim Gettys (jg@pa.dec.com)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:47:45 -0800
> 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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