[DM-MUG] O'Reilly

[Matt Stanton]

Many of the O'Reilly books tend to lean toward the open-source 
community, and while Mac OS X has brought many open-source folks to the 
borders of the Mac world, I think there's a good possibility that the 
average home Mac user may not have had the opportunity to discover this 
book series.  Mac users who do any sort of web work will more than 
likely have found the O'Reilly series to be profoundly helpful, though.

I've had the pleasure of owning the Programming Perl and the DNS and 
BIND O'Reilly books for some time, now, and I must say that they have 
both served me quite well.  Digging through online tutorials to try to 
solve a programming task or to look up how you accomplish something in 
BIND has always been maddening, and the O'Reilly books have made 
anything I've ever needed to know available at my fingertips.

Sadly, politics has gotten so out of hand lately that people are ready 
to jump at anything that has any conceived connection.  It is just 
another example of tv media hounding the public with their agendas, 
turning us against one another for stuff that in the long run is too 
confusing to work or matter.  If only one could change a network's 
business plan with a swift fist to the mouth once in a while.  Sadly, 
even the linux users group list is currently being raided by this 
political crap.

Alan Maupin wrote:
> Mr. Murdock,
>
> It is my understanding that most computer enthusiast are familiar with 
> the extensive collection of O'Reilly books on technology.   It 
> wouldn't be unusual for that assumption to be made. 
>
> Please see this link for a better overview on jO'Reilly: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Books
>
> On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Stanley Murdock wrote:
>
>> I beg your pardon, Ms. Herring.  But I guess I don't understand why  
>> you think everyone on this list would know that  O'Reilly is a book  
>> publisher.  I think I am a fairly well educated and I read widely,  
>> but I did not have a clue as to the O'Reilly  publishing company.      
>> Stan Murdock
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