Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:25:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <199801091323.IAA07236@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <19980109090450.36060@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? > > Andy's been the only one who had much to say on the subject. I think > they grossly miscalculated the sales of the 4.4BSD manual set, and as > a result were wary of anything called BSD. > > Greg > Maybe if they had done more then just print out and bind the man pages, more copies would have sold. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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