From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 22:52:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:52:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.16.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24560 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:52:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (kosnax-10.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.64.14]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.8.8) id FAA11585; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 05:52:45 GMT Received: (from fpawlak@localhost) by darkstar.connect.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00329; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:52:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Pawlak Message-Id: <199804100552.AAA00329@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 00:52:40 -0500 (CDT) To: grog@lemis.com Cc: fpawlak@execpc.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Interne In-Reply-To: <19980410145034.55532@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.2-971023-FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > ---------------mega snip----- > > Compared to the books on Linux the 4.4BSD books are way over the > head of Joe > > User. Greg Lehey's book is a gem, and that is the kind of thing > that is > > needed. > > Thanks. Unfortunately, ORA doesn't even start to agree with you. > They've repeatedly turned down offers of taking over publication, and > even of looking at the book. ORA Germany took a copy, and liked it, > but they wouldn't be able to publish it in Germany. > > Greg Thank you for a very usefull book. That is a travesty. The reason for this is probably none of my business, but can't help but wondering why they wouldn't publish it. Suspect that some politics are involved. Who did the Berkeley people piss off to cause this? ORA is in it for the dollars, seems that If the demand is there they should put it out. The thought occurs to use part of your book as the instruction manual to accompany the CD set. Perhaps stripping out the man pages to reduce the cost and use that with the CD set. SuSE Linux provides a book, about 400 pages, similar in scope to the first 400 pages of yours as a manual with their sistribution. It has been well received by users. Just some thought on the professionalism of the distribution. Regards, Frank > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message