Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:00:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: dnelson@emsphone.com, ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Interne Message-ID: <19980410160025.29260@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199804100552.AAA00329@darkstar.connect.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 12:52:40AM -0500 References: <19980410145034.55532@freebie.lemis.com> <199804100552.AAA00329@darkstar.connect.com>
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On Fri, 10 April 1998 at 0:52:40 -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >>> Compared to the books on Linux the 4.4BSD books are way over the >>> head of Joe User. Greg Lehey's book is a gem, and that is the >>> kind of thing that is needed. >> >> Thanks. Unfortunately, ORA doesn't even start to agree with you. >> They've repeatedly turned down offers of taking over publication, and >> even of looking at the book. ORA Germany took a copy, and liked it, >> but they wouldn't be able to publish it in Germany. > > That is a travesty. The reason for this is probably none of my > business, but can't help but wondering why they wouldn't publish it. > Suspect that some politics are involved. Who did the Berkeley people > piss off to cause this? ORA is in it for the dollars, seems that If the > demand is there they should put it out. It appears that somebody at ORA thinks that the dollars won't be forthcoming. > The thought occurs to use part of your book as the instruction manual to > accompany the CD set. Perhaps stripping out the man pages to reduce the > cost and use that with the CD set. SuSE Linux provides a book, about > 400 pages, similar in scope to the first 400 pages of yours as a manual > with their sistribution. It has been well received by users. Just some > thought on the professionalism of the distribution. Well, in the 2.2.6 CD-ROM we're including the text in ASCII. Let's see what people think of that. 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-questions" in the body of the message
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