From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 21 10:37:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4055137B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 10:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5280; Mon, 21 May 2001 10:42:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3B095240.F7873FAD@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:37:04 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" References: <000101c0e0ff$44725600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Well, I remember paging through that in the bookstore once, and while I > admit I didn't look through all volumes (they wern't all there) what I > remember of it was mainly reprints of the system manual pages. Not > much to recommend purchase as the price was rather high. That's what 75% of their X11 series was, and it sold very well. I think the difference is that the X11 series was general to all unices, while the 4.4BSD Lite was specific to a single OS. ORA publishes a lot of Linux books because there is a big market demand for them. But there isn't a big market demand for FreeBSD books. Unfortunate, but true. This seems to be changing. The high Linux demand has fallen along with the dot.coms, and the BSDs are getting more attention. Patience is what's needed. Nobody in the publishing world knew what Linux was until it reached a certain threshold, then *blam*! Every computer publisher had their own line of Linux books. Eventually BSD will reach that threshold. It won't be as dramatic, since we won't have the benefit of the dot.com tide, but it will happen. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message