26 Jun
2004
26 Jun
'04
1:54 a.m.
At this instant, there is an accessible
link at
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2724348
though it has some popups. A very nice story
indeed. I talked to the author (Konstantin Kakaes)
for a couple of hours in March. He really did want
to know mostly about the kind of things the article
talks about, and though the PR guy had probably told
him that I wouldn't get into things like SCO, in fact
that wasn't what he was interested in.
Dennis
26 Jun
26 Jun
4:02 a.m.
New subject: media: Unix's Founding Fathers
In a 0.6K blaze of typing glory, dmr(a)plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
At this instant, there is an accessible
link at
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2724348
though it has some popups. A very nice story
indeed. I talked to the author (Konstantin Kakaes)
for a couple of hours in March. He really did want
to know mostly about the kind of things the article
talks about, and though the PR guy had probably told
him that I wouldn't get into things like SCO, in fact
that wasn't what he was interested in.
A very nice piece, indeed. It is refreshingly free from breathless
adoration of technology. Although such an article must note the UNIX
wars of the 80s and also the legal intriques, Kakaes manages to steer
clear of moribund, tired prose on the subject. Nicely done.
Kurt
--
"This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does
something child-like."
-- Forbes Burkowski, Computer Science 454
28 Jun
28 Jun
2 a.m.
New subject: media: Unix's Founding Fathers
I'm impressed at how successful the writer is at getting to the point.
A frightening number of scribblers in that neck of the woods - "economics/etc"
-
need something frightfully close to "open-cranium mining" to get even simple
technical concepts.
Wesley Parish
Quoting "dmr(a)plan9.bell-labs.com" <dmr(a)plan9.bell-labs.com>:
At this instant, there is an accessible
link at
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2724348
though it has some popups. A very nice story
indeed. I talked to the author (Konstantin Kakaes)
for a couple of hours in March. He really did want
to know mostly about the kind of things the article
talks about, and though the PR guy had probably told
him that I wouldn't get into things like SCO, in fact
that wasn't what he was interested in.
Dennis
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