Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:04:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <19980109090450.36060@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:33:22AM -0500 References: <19980108161826.07668@lemis.com> <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:33:22AM -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote: > >> 2. I'm also the author of O'Reilly's "Porting UNIX Software". > > You wrote that? Yup. > I have been meaning to buy it anyway, now I have even more reason to > do so. Thanks. >> 3. I've been trying to convince O'Reilly to publish "The Complete >> FreeBSD" for nearly 2 years now. So far, they have seen no reason >> to do so. > > That's a shame. I think more stores would carry it if it were published > by O'Reilly. Agreed. That's why we keep trying. >> I'm copying my editor at O'Reilly, Andy Oram, on this reply. Andy >> seems more sympathetic to the idea of a FreeBSD book than most at >> O'Reilly. It doesn't mean that he can get up and make it happen, but >> I'm sure he'll be interested. > > Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? Andy's been the only one who had much to say on the subject. I think they grossly miscalculated the sales of the 4.4BSD manual set, and as a result were wary of anything called BSD. Greg
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