Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 22:50:11 -0400 From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@crism.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804100250.WAA02788@crism.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:35:36 %2B0930." <19980410113536.65458@freebie.lemis.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was going to send this just to Greg, but my suggestions at the end are possibly useful to the group at large. [Greg Lehey] > Tim knows about Jordan, despite his message. We've repeatedly tried > to get them interested in BSD, but there's something at ORA that > resists. I suspect it's not Tim (who lives in California), but > somebody on the East Coast. Is this one of those weird west coast/east coast UNIX things? You'd think we were rappers; I've never understood it. Tim has allegedly resisted proposals for FreeBSD books; the only two FreeBSD users I *know* of at O'Reilly are on the east coast. Most of the directional decisions happen on the west coast; the Cambridge office is almost exclusively production staff, though there are some marketing people and editors. > I've just about given up with ORA. They seem to be relinquishing > their position as the favourite UNIX publisher and chasing the NT > crowd. I'm surprised they even had this "summit". I disagree with that. My current project is the _UNIX Power Library_, a CD of the six most popular UNIX books (Power Tools, vi, ksh, sed & awk, UNIX Nut, and Learning UNIX) along with the Power Tools software. I'd say the current focus is more on Web stuff like Perl, Java, HTML, JavaScript, and XML. The focus of the Windows stuff is one I don't mind, and my home is Microsoft-free. I like the thurst of the "Annoyances" series. The main problem is that Tim doesn't see that there's a market for FreeBSD books, and he *is* in business to make money. The reason he's big on free software, and sponsored the summit, is that he realizes that there *is* money there, as demonstrated by our wildly popular Perl books. He hired Larry basically to give him an umbrella to keep Perl going, and to help come up with commercial tie-ins to the free core software. The main thing that FreeBSDers can do to change his perception is to demonstrate that there *is* a market. If you own O'Reilly books and would like to see FreeBSD books, *tell us*. If you don't own O'Reilly books, but would buy FreeBSD books, *tell us*. E-mail nuts@oreilly.com. Even better, if there's a specific book you think needs writing, *write it*. Prepare an outline and writing samples, and see <URL:http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/intro.html>. But don't do this unless you are prepared not to have a life for quite a while; writing a book kind of sucks. - -crism - -- "The secret of life is ventriloquism!" - _Complex World_ <URL:http://www.shore.net/%7Ecrism/>; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: For my public key, finger crism@crism.ne.mediaone.net. iQB1AwUBNS2ImHSaAdkmYoAJAQH3HAL9HE5xC13dEq1ev2Cp68hCxPZazpRS2mG6 6tVmQ4rVsjt26CqQlBSFPEtCViMCMH9OiL34sEJThxE1OowypRZn1p2k08uExSqr GKu/y46n/dAP+Hy9ethkPsyROZX/rr5S =G3m9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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