From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 05:59:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02109 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 05:59:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA02089; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 05:59:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Fri Apr 10 07:59 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id HAA23757; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 07:58:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id <2MVXB9G5>; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:58:54 -0400 Message-ID: To: brett@lariat.org, mike@smith.net.au, dshanes@personalogic.com, grog@lemis.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:58:50 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > From: Greg Lehey[SMTP:grog@lemis.com] > > They publish books. Just because they publish books doesn't mean that > they can't also publish books on BSD. In fact, O'Reilly Germany *are* > planning a BSD book, but I haven't seen much about it for a while. > The closest I could find to a real concern was that their 4.4BSD > manual set didn't sell nearly as well as they had expected. > And, for example, I can explain why *I* did not bought them. Because they are just printouts of man pages, partially obsolete. I already have them in FreeBSD, for free. Why would I pay lots of money to buy the same but worse ? What would I like to buy is the manual that will describe how to use this and that and why is it implemented in that way and not another. Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message