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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Magazine progression (was Allen Holub on DDJ & C-Chest)
Keywords: DDJ, C-Chest, magazines
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Date: 9 Sep 88 16:56:34 GMT
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In article <14047@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> dean@violet.berkeley.edu
(Dean Pentcheff) writes:
>Summary: Is the downward progression of computer magazines inevitable?

Yes.  All these magazines, unless their charters are carefully written
so as to prevent it, follow this trend of `technical' => `business'.
(Most of them soon follow through with `business' => fold.)  I am not
sure that this should be lamented.  Instead, when your favourite
`technical rag' turns commercial, start a new one.  Someday you too may
get rich selling it out :-) .
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