Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

[Joshua Zeidner]

  looks like weve got a drama queen here... :)

  -jmz

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>
> On May 4, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On May 4, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>>
>>>> In general, the
>>>> print world is in crisis because their value proposal is quickly being
>>>> invalidated.
>>>
>>> I don't think that's true.
>>
>>  yes, but don't you work for a newspaper?  ;)
>>
>
> No, I don't.  Newspapers are a totally different proposition than technical
> books, anyway.
>
> I've read the rest of this thread since my initial reply, and you've failed
> to answer my question.  So, to repeat : How can you feel justified making
> such categorical dismissals of people who find published technical books
> valuable?  Your inital reply was along the lines of "O'Reilly = lame", about
> a specific publishing house.  When people disagreed, and asked you to
> support that assertion, you transformed this into a diatribe about the
> economics and ecology of the entire publishing industry.
>
> I understand that a conversation can develop and change as topics get
> explored and other voices get involved, but I'd still like to know if you
> have an answer to my question, or if you were just blatantly trolling?
>
> I think you make some valid points, but the dismissive holier-than-thou
> attitude really rubs me the wrong way.  I get the feeling you enjoy being at
> the center of a manufactured controversy, and that is the definition of
> troll.
>
> alex
>
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