Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:27:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980109002611.300I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > > 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. > > I did my part, bought the whole set of 4.4BSD books. I have about 6' of > ORA books. So did I. I wonder how many FreeBSDer's have bought the books (yes, and probably just about all the rest on your shelf) and had O'Reilly decide they were Linuxer's? I didn't see any way they could have known about me, at least. Hell, I should have bought stock in them ... > > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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