[ale] The horse finally learned to sing...

[Jeff Hubbs]

I was pleasantly surprised to see that too.  I felt that "Technobuddy"
wasn't being much of a "buddy" at all to either people like us OR the
general computing population by refusing to discuss Linux in his
columns.  So many times, his columns have seemed to lament this or that
Windows-related problem with no more than a shrug.  I am happy that this
new column is as positive as it is.

Also, Popular Science (Nov. 02) has an article about a Linux-based
open-source VDR (www.cadsoft.de/vdr) that actually talks up the concept
of building and "insidious entertainment appliance" yourself.  The
article even goes on to mention the EFF.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:50, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 	Referring to an ancient Chinese story of someone who avoids
> execution by promising the emperor that he would teach the emperor's
> favorite horse to sing...
> 
> 	The Techno Buddy has done a Linux article.
> 
> 	<http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/business_d3bb99641768b00800e9.html>
> 
> 	For those of you tuning in a few years late, we tried to get
> Husted to do an article on Linux way back in the early days of ALE.
> IIRC...  I think it was just before our original Expo/Showcase (not
> the first ALS but the little one-day Expo that was held on the Georgia
> Tech campus).  At the time he said he would not because his readers
> wouldn't even understand what an OS was and he wouldn't use the term
> "operating system" in one of his columns...
> 
> 	My how things change...  Perhaps the horse can learn to sing...  :-)
> 
> 	Mike
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