Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:43:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: unknown@riverstyx.net (Tani Hosokawa) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, brett@peloton.runet.edu, jcwells@u.washington.edu, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? Message-ID: <199910090143.SAA03530@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910081757580.23494-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> from "Tani Hosokawa" at Oct 8, 99 05:58:36 pm
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[ ... O'Reilly publication of Linux books vs. BSD books ... ] > Do you know how many submissions they get for BSD related books compared > to how many submissions they get for Linux related books? I don't know about how many unsolicited proposals (or manuscripts) they get; I do know that there is approximately a 8:1 bias in solicitations, however. A book on Linux will sell copies. It is apparent that the ratio in which it will sell relative to a book on BSD is 8 times that of the BSD book. My point was that the commentary in the cited reference, and other public comments Tim has made, are contradictory. This either means that the cited reference was untrustworthy, or that Tim is philosophically in the BSD camp, but not fiscally supportive of his philosophy. Either of which conclusions are available, for anyone else with access to the public record and the cited article, to draw. I would be happy to be proven wrong (e.g. Tim is soliciting at 8:1 in favor of Linux, but Linux books would outsell BSD books at 16:1, and Tim is putting his money where his mouth is). Alternatively, I can still respect Tim for being a good businessman; after all, I collaborated on a user manual for a UNIX product with him back in the late 1980's, when he was just starting out with the "Nutshell" series, and he has been able to grow quite a sizable business based on his shred acumen. Either way, the cite must be taken with a grain of salt; it is not suffient in itself to refute the argument it purported to refute, without clarification from Tim himself. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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