From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 8 21:38:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA14449 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:38:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA13658 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01988; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:27:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 00:27:55 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: David Kelly cc: Greg Lehey , Jamie Bowden , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request In-Reply-To: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------