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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:57 PM, John Hansen <whitover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A number of readers of MicroMart have written complaining about the extent > of > coverage of Linux in the magazine. I am surprised that so many favour > MicroSoft OSs. > I have therefore today written as follows to: letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx : > > "I am surprised to read that some readers oppose coverage of Linux in favour > of MicroSoft products. > They must be prepared to pay a lot of money for MS Operating Systems and > associated programmes. > I much prefer to migrate to Linux with Open Source programmes which cost > little or nothing. > I am still learning about Linux and enjoy the articles in Micro Mart on this > subject. I would stop > subscribing if it became a MicroSoft only magazine. Go on try Linux and see > what you can do for > virtually no cost ;-)" > > Perhaps there are others on this list who would care to give their views to > be published in MicroMart. > > John W I used to get MicroMart pretty regularly and I was pleased to see Linux becoming something that they talked about. Indeed I even submitted a few Linux related 'articles' for them (one got printed, but seemed to be handled by the letters dept. rather than the articles dept.... oh well). Recently I have, however, not taken MicroMart very often and I have been summarily disappointed with their Linux coverage lately - it seems to be the same type of articles over and over again. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html