From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 12 15:21:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DE514E05 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA23043; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:41:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:41:52 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Brett Glass Cc: Phil Regnauld , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Market share and platform support Message-ID: <19990912224152.A20302@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <4.2.0.58.19990907234944.047c0980@localhost> <12874.936232439@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990907234944.047c0980@localhost> <19990908114806.04124@ns.int.ftf.net> <4.2.0.58.19990908100529.05259560@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990908100529.05259560@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:24:56AM -0600 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett, On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:24:56AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > O'Reilly has turned down several book proposals on BSD UNIX -- from me and > from other authors -- saying that Linux has so much more market share that it > offers them a greater return. I note that on the recent Slashdot interview with Tim O'Reilly he was asked what he thought one of his biggest mistakes was, and he says something to the effect of "Turning down the opportunity to publish Greg Lehey's _Complete FreeBSD_". It might be worth contacting them again and asking again. If their response is negative I suggest it's also worth asking for permission to republish their reasons why not to this list. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message