Re: *** draft 4 - press release ***

Robbie Stone (rstone@vitelus.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:37:40 +0000 ( )


Indeed, if we were to outline the MAJOR and some minor
differences(hardware support, etc etc.) then the press people could
effectivly utilize that data and make it sound spiffy. It just sounds
crappy when some journalist who has no clue what they're talking about
starts making stuff up. I think it important to outline the major
differences so even in the event of(a contingent plan!) some dumb
journalist it doesn't wreck the whole image thing going on.

I believe the article I read was something about iMacs and the coulumnist
said "unlink all macs before it the iMac has no boot ROM....". Now,
pulling that off would be a trick :-)

thnx.

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Robbie Stone, rstone@vitelus.com
Serendipity Simplex

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bert Barbe wrote:

:->If you really want to do this Press release keep it simple.
:->And if you really wanna do it, you can put together a press
:->package with quotes etc. for journalists to use.
:->
:->Ofcourse, IMHO, linux-kernel doesn't need to do a press release ;
:->a simple announcement from Linus in the usual places
:->will do nicely. The press will jump on it fast enough.
:->Instead we could focus on documenting the features of 2.2.0
:->and changes compared with 2.0.x
:->Focus on proper technical docs, and let the press boys add
:->the hype words themselves.
:->
:->Bert
:->
:->Robert Klein wrote:
:->>
:->> I'm somewhat confused by this fourth draft. Are we writing a
:->> press release or a newspaper/-magazine article? If it's a
:->> press release leave the quotes out. If we want to give
:->> journalists the quotes, let's just include pointers to the
:->> documents. Put them into the section with the links at the end
:->> under 'Further readings.'
:->>
:->> The processors part is okay, it's just confusing to mention
:->> every architectures.
:->>
:->> Regards, Robert
:->>
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