From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Aug 8 17:29:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFD914BFC for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11445; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:25:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Terry Lambert Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com, jooji@webnology.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Authors notes for FreeBSD books In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Aug 1999 23:47:33 -0000." <199908082347.QAA05404@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 17:25:53 -0700 Message-ID: <11441.934158353@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I would be more than happy to write a FreeBSD book (or two) *IFF* it > would settle down from its moving target status long enough for there > to be sufficient sales. For an internals book, this would mean: I doubt that's going to happen no matter what edicts are handed out, nor would enforcing stagnation in the name of documentation likely be a very good idea. I also tend to get far more requests for "beginner's books" from all the publishers I mentioned than for any "internals" books, as nice as that might be to have. In fact, I've yet to have a single publisher express interest in anything with much technical depth - they want "FreeBSD for ISPs" or "doing eCommerce with FreeBSD" or something suitably buzzwordy. As one publisher put it, "we want a Complete FreeBSD of our own to sell", and TCF isn't exactly an internals book by any stretch. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message