From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 10 19:28:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA02906 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:28:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA02863 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00568; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:38:06 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA19523; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:38:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980111123805.51736@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:38:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Perry Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request References: <19980109090622.20884@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Andrew Perry on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 07:26:13AM +1100 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 07:26:13AM +1100, Andrew Perry wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: >>>> Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? >>> >>> I've approached O'Reilly as well about authoring a FreeBSD book as well. >>> Both Tim and Andy Oram said that they pretty much want to stick with Linux >>> since they believe that's where the market is. >> >> I got a private reply from Andy saying that they had noticed a >> surprising resilience in the UNIX line (doesn't that say a lot!), and >> he would try yet again. I don't suppose it would do any harm if other >> people would send in a message to the O'Reilly people asking for a >> FreeBSD book. Don't all do it at once! A steady trickle has more >> effect. > > Got an e-mail address? Renaud sent it to proposals@ora.com . I haven't checked if there are others. Greg