Re: "Test Driving Linux" Released by O'Reilly

From: Tony Lawrence (foo_at_pcunix.com)
Date: 05/23/05 

Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:39:17 -0400

Brian K. White wrote:
> OK I hate to be a party pooper but think I'm kinda tired of the ads if they
> are going to be this frequent.
>
> I don't mind, actually I appreciate, the occasional advertizement showing up
> here if the product is on topic and not otherwise well known, or
> _infrequent_ informative updates about products even if they are well known
> as long as they are topical.
>
> While many of the O'Reilly books are topical here, and these ads could be
> called informative updates, they are apparently not going to be infrequent
> and I think everyone knows for a long time by now that the O'Reilly books
> exist, where to find them, that new ones are always coming out, and what
> their average usefulness is.
>

And I'm getting annoyed by how much the quality of O'Reilly books has
deteriorated. I'm not saying they are publishing worthless junk now,
but I think their standards are not what they used to be. Just my
opinion, but it used to be that if I saw an O'Reilly title on a subject
I wanted to know more about, I'd just buy it. Now I pick it up and look
through a few chapters to see if it's worth the money. Often it still
is, but not always. Maybe it's always been that way and things look
more idyllic in hindsight.. 

-- 
Tony Lawrence
Unix/Linux/Mac OS X  resources: http://aplawrence.com

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