Thanks! (Re: [ale] AJC coverage)

[Dan Newcombe]

[First off - Brooks, thanks for the help you have given us.  The world 
is not a perfect place (and won't be til Redmond is removed from the 
map), but usually the good has to take a backseat to the braindead...
	Linux to Windows
	All Creatures Great and Small to Martin
	Soccer to Football (or should it be Football to Football :)
	etc...
]

> What Bill told me was that, "whenever I use the word 'Operating System' I
> have to spend the next two paragraphs explaining what one is".  Our readers
> care about Win95, Mac and DOS not because Bill or the paper thinks them
> superior but because thats what they use.

I am a reader.  I don't care about any of the above three.  But I do 
agree, I am in the minority.  Then again, if I had my way, the sports 
section would have a lot more coverage of stuff like the World Soccer 
and World Cricket Cups (with teams from all over) and less of stuff 
like the World Series (we have 2? teams from Canada in the MLB and it 
is a "world" series????)  But if I ran the paper and cut all football 
and basketball junk, I would not have a paper to run for long.

> I told Steve that I would be glad to publish the release on our on-line
> service Access Atlanta and that I would try to get it into the calendars
> section of the paper.  Hell, that is pretty damn good.  I made it clear that
> Bill was a good guy and sympathetic.

I think this is damn good.  While I didn't think Bill should do a whole 
article on Linux, I had at least hoped we could have been mentioned 
somewhere in the Personal Tech section, where people who are interested 
in computers would be looking.  Too bad there is not something like 
Netw at tch, but for local events like this, user groups, etc...
 
> I am sorry but Linux just is not main stream enough to warrant an full
> article.  It sucks, but it is true.  

To be honest here (thinking about some computer "users" I know), if 
some of the people came and saw Linux, and started using it - it would 
scare me.  As much as we may wish to hope and dream, Linux is not for 
people that still put their whole body into moving a mouse, and who 
still can't master the ever elusive "double-click".

Perhaps (and it may be too late) we should be trying to get this into 
the Business section.  We've been saying from the getgo that we want to 
appeal to business's that could use Linux.  Just an idea.

	-Dan

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