Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 21:38:42 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Review --NT suckup rag Message-ID: <19926.896935122@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 02:39:31 -0000." <980604023931.ZM14138@darkstar.connect.com>
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> IMHO, another badly written article used to slam us and praise Linux. Calls > the FreeBSD project "the last gasp of a fine research project that is now > over". Makes a big issue about FreeBSD not having commercial support, and th at > the FreeBSD books are little more than bound man pages. Well, it's always good to listen to the dissenting opinions. Sometimes they even have a point, like that last one about too many man pages in our single book. I totally agree, I slammed the man pages when they first went in and if I had more to do with determining just what the content of that book was, I'd have never bloated it out to 1700 pages just by adding in a lot of man pages. That was a move made for purely marketing reasons and any shots to the jaw we get over it are probably deserved. Unfortunately, I also didn't have 500 pages of my own to contribute which would have made the book a far better product and so I really couldn't do much more than grumble about the man pages. Seeing as how I had nothing _constructive_ to offer the book, I had to pretty much just shut my mouth and like it if I didn't want someone coming back with "if you want a better book then write the one you've been promising to write for over 2 years, you choad!" :-) And as far as commercial support is concerned, I agree with that too and that's really probably come down most to just us here at Walnut Creek CDROM dropping the ball. We have the infrastructure, we have the funds and we could get the personnel if we just pulled our thumbs out and decided to go for it, but the tech-support canyon before which we stand is also a very deep one, and I suppose we can be forgiven for showing a little reticence to jump. In any case, we have two important points to work on as a result of this criticism: Better books and thumb removal on the part of those who should now be putting a commercial support organization into place. As far as being a "last gasp" is concerned, well, we all know that's so manifestly untrue that we don't even need to get upset at such a laughably transparent attempt to get our goat. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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