Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:53:29 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: "richard childers" <fscked@pacbell.net>, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pimping FreeBSD Information (was: 'Order') Message-ID: <024401c0a120$e3c46be0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <004101c0a094$fab2ce00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3A9BC4C1.ABD81182@pacbell.net> <p05010409b6c1f5cfd041@[128.113.24.47]>
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From the limited amount of it that I've seen it appears to be quite a good thing. I get the impression that a bit of effort has been put into providing a more pedantic explanation of stuff than we normally find in technical publications. I'd like find a copy in some local bookstore so I can get a really good look at it but unfortunately it doesn't appear to have reached OZ yet. I'll probably splurge out shortly & buy one from Amazon though because its only about half the cost of O'Reilly books. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "richard childers" <fscked@pacbell.net>; "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Re: Pimping FreeBSD Information (was: 'Order') > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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