Thomas Lord wrote: >> I think that if you take a lot of posts to gnu-arch-users >> and arrange them backwards in time, apply some editing -- >> it makes for a pretty good book about open source.
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Why backwards? Forwards it would be very boring: project starts (yawn), fun follows (boring), chaos and contention (hard to follow), raving begins (hmm... but a bit far into the book), finally moderately compressed summaries of the raving appear which are easier to digest. Backwards, that's thesis followed by evidence. This is not to say that the raving was all that hard to follow in the first place or that I didn't already post at least sufficiently lucid versions of it elsewhere but... well in terms of the end-piece to balance "Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution" and the like, the backwards treatment seems like a good gimmick to me. -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
