Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 11:46:35 -0700 From: "David Shanes" <dshanes@personalogic.com> To: <dwilde1@ibm.net>, <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <011801bd67d5$a67d81e0$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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Interesting idea... Not that a "FreeBSD for Dummies" book would not have
any more information than Greg's book, but it *would* be in a more familiar
format for the masses.
I think that might really be a valid pursuit!
David
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>
To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: Open Source Products
>Josef Grosch wrote:
>
>> Now, that is an interesting way to estimate ones installed base. I guess
I
>> was sleeping when this technique was discussed in my Probability and
>> Statistics class in college. ;-)
>
>mmm, maybe that's the answer: spin out of control and hope enough people
>write 'dummies' books to try to profit from your huge user base,
>creating a huge hungry base of people who have to justify their $30
>books... GNU's Not UNIX... FreeBSD's Not Linux.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>disconnect timeout.
>
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