From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 8 18:14:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CF8153C0 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA09776; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:14:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991008190610.042a9770@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 19:12:30 -0600 To: Terry Lambert , brett@peloton.runet.edu (Brett Taylor) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jcwells@u.washington.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199910090053.RAA01748@usr09.primenet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:53 AM 10/9/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >Which is really belied by Tim's company's own actions, with >regard to publication of Linux vs. BSD materials, IMO. > >This is a situation where he publically holds one opinion, but >acts in contravention of that opinion. O'Reilly tends to jump on, and ride, bandwagons after the bandwagons get going. They do NOT push the bandwagon, even though they would be very effective in that role. As a result, they're not super-enthusiastic about FreeBSD titles. They do not seem convinced that they'd get the same ROI from a general FreeBSD book as they would from even a "niche" Linux book. I've been campaigning to do a FreeBSD book for them, but I do not sense much enthusiasm. My last e-mail, containing a proposal that they solicited, has not yet been answered. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message