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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:16:44 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Free Systems Journal 
Message-ID:  <25147.858921404@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:09:42 MST." <3332CEE6.CCEE22F@konnections.com> 

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> This is very interesting.  We've been working on this project for a
> couple of weeks now and it was at the behest of Greg Lehey whom I've
> recruited, to write to FreeBSD and let everyone know.  A couple of
> things I didn't put out, which I should have, is that I want to be able
> to allow for readers to make reasonable copies and that we will place
> back issues on the net (like you in multi formats, pdf, ps, etc).  I

That sound very good.

> have no objections to writers doing FreeBSD and FreeBSD related stories
> to publishing them in your newletter, and vice versa.  I'd also be
> willing to list a link to you newsletter and support it in any way
> feasible.

Excellent.  All of our articles will also be freely redistributable,
so it sounds like we might actually wind up with a number of "pooled"
articles which exceed the number of FreeBSD related articles we could
otherwise generate alone.  Since you're also going after a much wider
market, the FreeBSD related articles would be somewhat less crucial to
making up each issue.  My position is somewhat harder - I can't just
pop in another article on Linux whenever I have a slack month. :-)

> I would certainly hope that we can all complement each other rather than
> compete and that readers will want to get as much "news" as possible. 

Me too.

> Really, though, our desire is not to compete, but to expand.  I think,
> in the long run, readers will have Free access to our magazine, they may
> need to pay for timely access, but ultimate access through the net,
> should be free as well.  How free, price-wise, depends on our ability to
> find other funding through advertising, or ?.

Gotcha.

After reading this and some of your other replies, it sounds like my
worries were basically unfounded.  In fact, I have to agree with the
other folks who said that FreeBSD exposure in a pan-Free-OS
publication may indeed be MORE valuable than one which preaches to the
converted, so to speak, so now I'm even more motivated to see both
publications succeed.

Please keep me posted as you get closer to getting this thing off the
ground.  At some point, if you have some subscription cards made up
(which, of course, will directly mention FreeBSD as one of the markets
to which this publication is being pitched :), I think I can even get
Walnut Creek CDROM to stick them in with the FreeBSD orders for
awhile, if not on an ongoing basis.  Same perhaps for Slackware,
though I'm not quite so empowered to speak on its behalf - I can at
least make the pitch.  That would get you at least a few thousand new
contacts a month, and if even only 1% subscribed you'd probably do
pretty well.

					Jordan





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