On Samstag, April 5, 2003, at 11:41 Uhr, Steven Burr wrote:This must be in the May issue. After I read this email, I picked up the April issue, but no such article on page 64.
Yea, it is the May issue, I just got it yesterday.
There is an article starting on page 12 that talks about installing open source software. The section on Fink includes this:
FUN VERSUS FINK
Installing apps like Fink, however, could put you in a funk. As is the case with a lot of open-source stuff, it will send you to the Terminal to tweak config files.
Hmm, you're right, I remember this article too. It looks like the staff of
MacAddict have widely varying opinions on the usefulness of Fink.
OTOH, the author of "FUN VERSUS FINK" did not even bother to get
past the .tcshrc step, after which you don't need to edit files any more.
Oh well.This kind of journalism is what I would refer to as being unprofessional and full of prejudice.
Often classic media suffers this problem because neither author nor editor know enough about the topic they are forced to report on. Open Source is a new development and classic software reports are to be newly evaluated.
I hope that we can somehow avoid such "statements" in the future.
It would be nice if magazines had at least one author who can properly report on OS software available for that platform. It appears that MacAddict now does, even if they didn't last month ;-)
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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