[DM-MUG] O'Reilly, oh really?

[AB]

I agree with the statement from Stan Murdock. I initially thought it strange to bring up a political news figure. Personally, the list of Print publishers I rattle off the top of my head are publishers like Random House, Meredith Corp, Gannett, Pearson's, or Houghton Muffin. Although, ironically, I also have a dust-covered, released pre-Mac OS X, old copy of Programming Perl, Matt Stanton refers to. 

Simply put: Funny how context can make a world of difference. 

--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Matt Stanton <inflatablesoulmate at brothersofchaos.com> wrote:

> From: Matt Stanton <inflatablesoulmate at brothersofchaos.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] O'Reilly
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 11:27 PM
> 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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