From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 16:54:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7A037B71D for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1S0qgE81899; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:52:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <024401c0a120$e3c46be0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "richard childers" , "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Garance A Drosihn" Cc: References: <004101c0a094$fab2ce00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <3A9BC4C1.ABD81182@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Pimping FreeBSD Information (was: 'Order') Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:53:29 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "richard childers" ; "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: 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