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From: gjohnson@dream.season.com (Reality is a point of view)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL: InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource August 1996
Date: 23 Aug 1996 22:57:50 GMT
Organization: season.com [205.179.33.0]
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+---- Joel@InfoMagic.com wrote (23 Aug 1996 17:06:37 GMT):
| We're listening. Its always difficult to know what folks are interested
| in. We get as many requests for some obscure program included only deep in
| the Sunsite archive as we do for the inclusion of FreeBSD & NetBSD on a
| disc set with Linux.
|
| What would folks think of a combo deal that included our Linux set, BSD set
| (NetBSD and FreeBSD) and possibly the updated Standards disc with RFC's and
| other networking docs, now in PDF format ?
|
| We obviously have other customers with no interest in the OS discs, they
| just want the Standards, and others who prefer either the BSD systems or
| Linux, so we have no plans to put all of this on one set.
+----
I think compressed plain text RFC's and STD's would do just
fine. No need to bulk it up or require a viewer. There is
already enough of that going on in retail stores, including book
stores.
There is a need, I think, for more people to read them and a
developers CD set seems like a good place to put them,
especially since they are free anyway.
A combo set would be cool, I would buy one. Depending on the
gouge of course.
--
Gary Johnson "Rosebud . . ."
gjohnson@season.com <a href="http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap">Freedom?</a>
CAMPAIGN '96: Juck 'em if they can't fake a toke.