Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 17, 2004 07:56 AM
Forbes does not always say what you want them to say, but I don't see them as shills. Where they've reported on Linux, they have generally been fair. Fair is not always what you want to hear, but them's the breaks. And they began reporting on Linux long before it was "cool" to do so.
Then again you probably haven't been around long enough to remember their July 1998 issue with Linus Torvalds on the cover. (That probably was the first time that he appeared on the cover of a mainstream magazine.) It was the first time that I saw a mainstream publication really "get it".
See <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6000" title="linuxjournal.com">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6000</a linuxjournal.com> for a reminder of the timeline. That article hit the presses before the major database vendors (Oracle, Informix and Sybase) announced that they would port to Linux.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 17, 2004 07:56 AMThen again you probably haven't been around long enough to remember their July 1998 issue with Linus Torvalds on the cover. (That probably was the first time that he appeared on the cover of a mainstream magazine.) It was the first time that I saw a mainstream publication really "get it".
See <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6000" title="linuxjournal.com">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6000</a linuxjournal.com> for a reminder of the timeline. That article hit the presses before the major database vendors (Oracle, Informix and Sybase) announced that they would port to Linux.
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