Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:26:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Open Source Products Message-ID: <19980415122623.Z1870@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <011801bd67d5$a67d81e0$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>; from David Shanes on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:46:35AM -0700 References: <011801bd67d5$a67d81e0$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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On Tue, 14 April 1998 at 11:46:35 -0700, David Shanes wrote: >> Josef Grosch wrote: >> >>> Now, that is an interesting way to estimate ones installed base. I >>> guess I was sleeping when this technique was discussed in my >>> Probability and Statistics class in college. ;-) >> >> mmm, maybe that's the answer: spin out of control and hope enough people >> write 'dummies' books to try to profit from your huge user base, >> creating a huge hungry base of people who have to justify their $30 >> books... GNU's Not UNIX... FreeBSD's Not Linux.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz >> disconnect timeout. > > Interesting idea... Not that a "FreeBSD for Dummies" book would not have > any more information than Greg's book, but it *would* be in a more familiar > format for the masses. > I think that might really be a valid pursuit! There's certainly place for another book on FreeBSD. And whoever gets a book published with IDG is going to be way past me (and ORA) in terms of volume. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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