Re: Re: Hey guys, check this out.

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 10:05:46PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
>
> > Maybe you guys should get some Great Bridge marketing/PR person to handle
> > stuff like this.
>
> After reading Ned's comments I figured that's how it got that way in
> the first place. But that's just speculation.

You probably figured wrong.

All those publications have editors who generally feel they're not
doing their job if they don't introduce errors, usually without even
talking to the reporter. That's probably how the "FreeBSD" reference
got in there: somebody saw "Berkeley" and decided "FreeBSD" would look
more "techie". It's stupid, but nothng to excoriate the reporter about.

Sam Williams's articles read completely differently according to
who publishes them. Typically the Linux magazines print what he
writes, and thereby get it mostly right, but the finance magazines
mangle them to total nonsense.

Nathan Myers
ncm(at)zembu(dot)com