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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:06:22 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
Cc:        Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Book Request
Message-ID:  <19980109090622.20884@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <34B4F5F5.4A9A3B24@fsl.noaa.gov>; from Sean Kelly on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0700
References:  <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net> <34B4F5F5.4A9A3B24@fsl.noaa.gov>

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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books?
>
> I've approached O'Reilly as well about authoring a FreeBSD book as well.
> Both Tim and Andy Oram said that they pretty much want to stick with Linux
> since they believe that's where the market is.

I got a private reply from Andy saying that they had noticed a
surprising resilience in the UNIX line (doesn't that say a lot!), and
he would try yet again.  I don't suppose it would do any harm if other
people would send in a message to the O'Reilly people asking for a
FreeBSD book.  Don't all do it at once!  A steady trickle has more
effect.

Greg



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