From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 5 12:11:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (envy.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB6037B503; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e95JAqs56346; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:10:50 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Michael Lucas Cc: Steve Fagan , Rick Hamell , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <20001005121049.D43895@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@lust.geekhouse.net References: <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net> <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com> <20001005150812.B79428@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001005150812.B79428@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:08:12PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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