Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:24:19 -0500 From: markemmanuel <lists@markemmanuel.org> To: FreeBSD advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" Message-ID: <B72D4825.2D3D%lists@markemmanuel.org> In-Reply-To: <000101c0e029$dabbde00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Quoted from the Book of Ted Mittelstaedt Ch 6:7-13 on 5/19/01 1:06 AM: > Um, I happen to know that Tim O'Reilly has been approached with SEVERAL > FreeBSD book projects, including my own, and has turned them all down. > Well, mine is successful (at least, I'm told it is although I have yet > to see sales figures) and how smart is it for a book publisher to turn > down a successful book project and let a competitor take it? That was a > political decision, not a professional one. > > Ask Greg if he's had any luck shopping HIS book to O'Reilly. Not that I > have any evidence that he ever has done so, but I'd be surprised if he > hasn't. I wouldn't think that Wind River is going to want to be in the > book publishing business, and it's a natural and obvious move for The > Complete FreeBSD to go to O'Reilly. Certainly it would enhance the book, > it would enhance O'Reilly, and it would help BSD penetration. > > O'Reilly makes plenty of money off Linux, and has much vested interest > in GPL. And, I didn't call them "fanatics", you just did. Since MacOS X came out, there have been a number of MacOS X articles on their website. Don't they have books on Apache and isn't Apache under a BSD like license? GPLesque software is also in fashion as well. It's no wonder why they're focusing on GPL licensed software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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