Re: GNU Press Releases

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From: Michael Almond
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 1990 19:22

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In article <SBB.90Nov16101004@laplace.sun.com> sbb@laplace.sun.com (Steve Byrne) writes:
>In article <9011160404.AA11883@wubios.wustl.edu> david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) writes:
>
>   I was reading Info World just now, and was reminded of the fact that
>   free software is rarely mentioned in these publications.  The products
>   that are mentioned probably were announced via press releases.  I 
>   suggest that the FSF make press releases announcing major releases of
>   its products to all the major computer newspapers.  -David-
>
>Some publications seem to be biased to only commercial products.


I saw an article a while back talking about different versions of make and
they mentioned Sun's make and GNU make (I believe it was Byte Magazine).  Even
if the magazines don't want to run press releases they seem to want to talk
about the software.



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From: mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond)
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Subject: Re: GNU Press Releases
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