From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 16:42:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9102637B718 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA56200; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:42:19 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3A9BC4C1.ABD81182@pacbell.net> References: <004101c0a094$fab2ce00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3A9BC4C1.ABD81182@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:42:18 -0500 To: richard childers , Ted Mittelstaedt From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Pimping FreeBSD Information (was: 'Order') Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:16 AM -0800 2/27/01, richard childers wrote: >Maybe you should offer to send free copies to people ... or quote >from your book, instead of just referring to it. > >I've seen two references to this book ... two attempts to pander >it, to pimp it, to sell it, to drum up orders for it ... but I >don't see you, Ted, contributing any expertise. Just sales >advertisements. After having read the messages that seemed to have annoyed you, I think Ted's comments were fine. The guy wrote a book, that does not mean he is required to stop and provide customized excerpts for the book for everyone who has a question that might be answered by the book. >If I am, I'm sure others - not you, Ted - will inform me. And >I will duly apologize. Will you? Good. I contribute code to the freebsd software project because I believe it is in my interests to do so. I do not do it because I expect everyone on the planet to work for zero money. I have to do the work anyway, because I am GETTING PAID to keep some things running. But in order to make my job easier, it benefits ME to get those changes in the rapidly-changing system. It will also benefit me if people write good books about FreeBSD (or any of the BSD's). I do not expect someone to spend months working on a book, and then give it out free. I have no idea if Ted's book is any good, but I don't think he is out of line by mentioning that he wrote it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message