From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 14 19:58:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27933 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27743 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 02:56:50 GMT (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA06915; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:26:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980415122623.Z1870@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:26:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Shanes Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products References: <011801bd67d5$a67d81e0$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <011801bd67d5$a67d81e0$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>; from David Shanes on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:46:35AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 11:46:35 -0700, David Shanes wrote: >> 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. > > 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! There's certainly place for another book on FreeBSD. And whoever gets a book published with IDG is going to be way past me (and ORA) in terms of volume. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message