From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 17 13:11: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (unknown [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D8815540 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:10:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.36]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990617201306.JXOQ364447.mta2-rme@wocker>; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:13:06 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:10:30 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: The complete FreeBSD Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: Dmitry References: <19990617102112.SUIB404633.mta1-rme@wocker> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990617201306.JXOQ364447.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17 Jun 99, at 9:28, Matt Behrens wrote: > [Moving this thread to -chat.] > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > > : On 17 Jun 99, at 8:37, Dmitry wrote: > > : > May be someone who has this book on CD put it on some webserver for > all : > FreeBSD community. I think that it'll help to train more > professional : > users and admins. I think it's rather good to allow this > book for free , : > because FreeBSD is free OS > > : Ummm, no. Books are quite different to software. How many free Linux : > books do you know of? > > Actually, there has recently been a few by O'Reilly (not Linux > books specifically) that are being released as "open source books". > DocBook: The Definitive Guide, I think, is one. Personally, I > think the idea of everyone working and improving on a book's source > doesn't make as much sense as software. However, it is a neat way > to go. The difference I referred to was cost not the writing method. It's very expensive to write a book. I think it would be nearly impossible to create free books. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message