[DM-MUG] O'Reilly

[Alan Maupin]

If before this post you were not aware of O'Reilly the computer book  
publisher, then consider yourself now informed.  I performed a query  
on the O'Reilly web site and used Mac as the search term.  That query  
returned 4,721 hits.  Follow this link to see the results.  http://search.oreilly.com/?q=Mac

This is the Des Moines Mac User Group.  The Mac is a computer. The  
operating system on the Mac is OS X and it is UNIX based.   
Specifically, Mac OS X is based upon the Mach kernel and contains  
parts from FreeBSD and NetBSD.  FreeBSD and NetBSD are open-source.    
Matt as you stated, O'Reilly is a publisher of books leaning toward  
open-source but you forgot to mention UNIX.   O'Reilly publishing is  
completely relevant to OS X from a technological standpoint.   In my  
opinion I serious doubt you will find a more relevant collection of  
information on the Mac, period.

The original post included a hard link to the web site that verified  
it was in fact O'Reilly the technology book publisher.   How could one  
confuse that.  This is a computer enthusiast web forum.  Why would  
anyone "assume" any topic is political and create a negative public  
response in the forum.   And thank you again Ms. Herring for sharing  
this valuable link to the uninformed users of UNIX technology.



On Aug 22, 2009, at 11:27 PM, Matt Stanton wrote:

> 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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