Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 18:25:38 -0400 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" (moved to chat) Message-ID: <Version.32.19980411182138.00e46580@cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <199804101747.KAA15159@tao.thought.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980409225048.7629B-100000@orion.webspan.net>
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Has anyone considered the possible benefits of having an online magazine? This could reduce distribution costs dramatically while allowing us to get a sense of how much interest there is in this sort of service before commiting money to creating an actual magazine in print. K.S. At 01:47 PM 4/10/98 , you wrote: > > We need a starting point. A number of years ago I saw the > first issue of the Linux magazine. Then heard no more > about it. I was pleased that at last the Free Unix world > has a real (paper) rag in circulation; and the following > year when I began running FreeBSD I thought that it would > be nice if this Linux pub could be merged in with the FBSD > world. > > <<BZZZZT>> > > Well, I've heard the buzzer there. But it still leaves open > the issue of having a pay-for or free FBSD publication. > Quarterly at first; then perhaps bi-monthly. > > I've seen one of the ``Announcement'' circulars from WC//FBSD. > Could this serve as our house organ? Say 4 to 8 pages for the > first few issues. And expanding. > > I was a writer several lifetimes ago, and altho tech writing > is nearly beyond me (it ain't easy, folks), I'd be willing > to invest time in a *BSD magazine. > > There are hundreds or thousands among the BSD users more > skilled than I, so should be no lack of articles. We could > also have an online magazine; either ASCII-only or HTML > distributed by email. > > Publicizing the Berkeley Software Distribution will require > sweat; and imagination. It shouldn't take that much capital. > > gary > >> > > >-- > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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