Re: [vox] OSCON in San Diego
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Re: [vox] OSCON in San Diego
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> joe, this information went from a senior editor's lips, to me and norman
> matloff, to you. you read what we heard from a senior editor.
sad really. I liked guys like Andy Oram and Stephen Spain (I wonder if
they are still there).
> at first, he didn't quite say this explicitly, but when pressed, he
> confessed that o'reilly is changing direction. he also said that
> there's alot of people at o'reilly who are unhappy with this.
That does not surprise me...I don't think most of their staff is
'oriented' that way.
> apparently, it's common knowledge at the office.
bummer.
Well, there is always No Starch Press (I like the Linux Cookbook myself)
Those guys are swell (well, I may be biased in that I know some folks
there, but I still like their books...) and New Riders if you like typos
;)
> there were a number of books on various GNU tools that have been
> shelved in the past year.
too bad. it must really come down to a numbers game (there are wayyyy
more wanna-be MCSEs then there are Unix admins or coders)...
Sad really..
z
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