From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 20 8:24:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6386137B424 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 08:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@markemmanuel.org) Received: from [147.126.50.163] (unknown [147.126.50.163]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726CE5E1F for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 10:24:11 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:24:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" From: markemmanuel To: FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <000101c0e029$dabbde00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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