From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 9 21:29:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA21965 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:29:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from keaggy.canonware.com (canonware.com [206.184.206.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA21961 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: from localhost (jasone@localhost) by keaggy.canonware.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00215; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:30:55 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Evans To: Jamie Bowden cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request In-Reply-To: <199801091323.IAA07236@gatekeeper.itribe.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 Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. > > Maybe if they had done more then just print out and bind the man pages, > more copies would have sold. Yep, I didn't buy them for this exact reason. And I have a _lot_ of O'Reilly books. Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Work phone: [(408) 774-8007] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison]