Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 08:58:50 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: brett@lariat.org, mike@smith.net.au, dshanes@personalogic.com, grog@lemis.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEACDEA3@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> ---------- > From: Greg Lehey[SMTP:grog@lemis.com] > > They publish books. Just because they publish books doesn't mean that > they can't also publish books on BSD. In fact, O'Reilly Germany *are* > planning a BSD book, but I haven't seen much about it for a while. > The closest I could find to a real concern was that their 4.4BSD > manual set didn't sell nearly as well as they had expected. > And, for example, I can explain why *I* did not bought them. Because they are just printouts of man pages, partially obsolete. I already have them in FreeBSD, for free. Why would I pay lots of money to buy the same but worse ? What would I like to buy is the manual that will describe how to use this and that and why is it implemented in that way and not another. Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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