On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, K W M wrote:
> Yes, I saw the Table of Contents... what I was thinking is that
> you were going to run the "content" by us... <grin> Just a wee
> bit of a diff. Heheh.
hehe... ok. i'm writing it in eighths, and when the first eighth is
completed maybe i'll put some of the tutorials on the list...
> BTW, what was is that convinced the FSF publishers to do the
> book? Just curious. Last I heard, they needed to be convinced
> that such a book was needed or wanted by people in the Linux
> community.
rms was always behind it 100%, but the fsf's book publisher was skeptical at
first; after running some figures by him and a market study of existing
books/manuals, it was good to go. part of it (i'm guessing) was that the fsf
has never really published a book like this before - it's for
non-programmers and it assumes you're running the linux kernel...
