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From: jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian)
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 18:54:03 GMT
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Phil Hughes (fyl@ssc.com) wrote:
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> That said, for a similar magazine to happen for FreeBSD (and we would be
> interested in publishing it) we need to see the same sort of support as
> Linux Journal received. From the beginning we had advertisers that had
> faith and we had readers that had faith. I think we have proved that SSC
> can publish magazines (we just started WEBsmith, a magazine for WWW
> developers) so it should be easier than when we started our first
> magazine.
> If you want to see a FreeBSD Journal you need to convince a publisher (we
> are certainly interested, other publishers may be as well) that FreeBSD
> has the necessary following to make it happen. As for numbers, we are
> talking $20,000/issue minimum to even consider it and the revenue needs to
> quickly get to 2-3 times that number for the magazine to break even.
> Put another way, 1000 new subscribers each month and 20 pages of
> advertising is in the ballpark.
> If you think you can convince me this can happen, go for it. I really
> would like to see something like this happen but with WEBsmith just
> starting plus the Orion Firewall system and other Zebu-related projects I
> don't have the time or ambition to do the research right now.
Another idea might be to introduce FreeBSD material into Linux
Journal and change the name of the magazine to, i.e., "Alternative UNIX
Journal" or "Linux and FreeBSD Journal". Hopefully, once the FreeBSD
articles start arriving, the magazine might slowly pick up to accomodate
both free UNIX systems. However, this also means that the magazine
will require more paper and ink if both OS's are to be discussed.
> --
> Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)PUBS-REF
> >>> Publishers of pocket references for UNIX, C, ..., Linux Journal <<<
> E-mail: phil@ssc.com Phone: (206)782-7733 Fax: (206)782-7191
> SSC/Linux Journal web site: http://www.ssc.com/
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Arthur Dikran Jerijian
UCLA Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering
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