evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (07/24/89)
The August 1989 issue of Unix World boasts a 'Unix resources directory'. So it claims. Being part of an organization which should have been listed but wasn't (/usr/group/cdn, a Canadian Unix user group), and another organization which was listed, incorrectly (did you folks know that the Nixpub listing is actually a list of "Pubnet Bulletin Boards"?), I wonder who else thinks this compilation may accomplish more harm than good? Having a list of "Unix books" which leaves out the most basic and fundamental Unix books of all - the nine-volume AT&T manual set published by Prentice-Hall - makes me wonder about its completeness. Not to mention that it lumped all the Nutshell books in a single listing. (Can you imagine a single entry for the "Addison-Wesley Unix series?"). And I must wonder about the accuracy of the rest of other descriptions in a piece that sums up the Free Software Foundation as a place that "provides cloned Unix software for the price of copying the software." While we're at it, "How to be a Cool Unix Dude" was a very unfunny piece of crap, and also incorrect. The geek stereotype is alive and well, and being encouraged by this drivel. -- Evan Leibovitch, SA, Telly Online, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / Director & editor, /usr/group/cdn 3 most stressful jobs in Canada: Policeman, fireman, choirboy in Newfoundland