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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!wetware!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com!news.caldera.com!park.uvsc.edu!usenet From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 12 Dec 1995 06:43:00 GMT Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4aj89l$g9o@park.uvsc.edu> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ve3t$of2@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4a4at5$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> <4abjgf$dap@felix.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29955 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10197 comp.unix.advocacy:12033 comp.unix.misc:20002 michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) wrote: ] From a marketing point of view FreeBSD needs at least 4 things.. ] ] FreeBSD Journal published monthly ] Getting Started with FreeBSD ] The FreeBSD Internet Server ] The FreeBSD Network Server ] ] The last 3 titles are books. A "Getting Started" book would be an add-on ] sale for a CD-ROM distribution, and could also be supplied to bookstores ] with the CD-ROM included. The "Internet Server" book would cover setting ] up a server for email, sync cards, WWW, ftp and the like. The "Network ] Server" book would be more LAN oriented covering things like NFS, SAMBA ] and Appleshare file and printer services. I work full time. For me to do a book, I must make back my opportunity costs. This is a large amount of money. For a $30 book ($40-$49 with CD) at a 10% royalty (yeah, right), this amounts to the neighborhood 40,000 copies. I'd maybe want more than that to afford me the leisure in trade for doing something that has the large attendant risks of writing a book. For one, I would have to invest the time up front and *hope* I made the money afterwards. I am very behind the idea of a BSD Journal (Why limit your advertisers? Why limit your scope?), but once again, we have opportunity costs. Can I best achieve all my goals by becoming a publisher? Depends on my goals. For my personal goals, the answer is "no". Can someone else? If they can, count me in as the first subscriber. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.