Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:10:50 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: Steve Fagan <sfagan@pmr.com>, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <20001005121049.D43895@envy.geekhouse.net> In-Reply-To: <20001005150812.B79428@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:08:12PM -0400 References: <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040924310.52998-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net> <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com> <20001005150812.B79428@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 at 15:08:12 -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:57:07PM -0500, Steve Fagan wrote: > > So would it help if we sent mails to them or something along those > > lines. > > The open source camps are well known for narrow, but deep, advocacy. > > I'd recommend putting your efforts towards other publishers. It would > help, say, Addison-Wesley to make the plunge if you wrote them asking > for a FreeBSD book. IDG has been wavering for a while, sadly. :( Addison-Wesley has at least two that I know of on the way RSN. One is Ted Mittelstaedt's, and the other is by Dan Langille and Chuck Rouillard. - jim -- jim mock <jim@jmock.com> work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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