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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:08:12 -0400
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Steve Fagan <sfagan@pmr.com>
Cc:        jim@lust.geekhouse.net, Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses)
Message-ID:  <20001005150812.B79428@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com>; from sfagan@pmr.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:57:07PM -0500
References:  <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040924310.52998-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net> <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com>

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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:57:07PM -0500, Steve Fagan wrote:
> So would it help if we sent mails to them or something along those lines.

The open source camps are well known for narrow, but deep, advocacy.

I'd recommend putting your efforts towards other publishers.  It would
help, say, Addison-Wesley to make the plunge if you wrote them asking
for a FreeBSD book.  IDG has been wavering for a while, sadly.  :(

-- 
Michael Lucas
mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons


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