From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:00:37 +1200 (NZST) Subject: [TUHS] re: media: Unix's Founding Fathers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1088388037.40df7bc54b31c@www.paradise.net.nz> 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 at 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 > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press