🚀 go-pugleaf

In message <5g02f2$21i6$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> - imwechs@ibm.net writes:
>
>In <c1.01.2FK72N$0oA@cretin.summerfield.network>, summer@iinet.net.au (John Summerfield) writes:
>>In <331F3B87.4CAB@ix.netcom.com>, Jeff Shultz <jbshutlz@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>]John Summerfield wrote:
>>
>>]> Interesting
>>
>>]> Info I have from the publishers is that the project has been dropped. As I
>>]>     was to be a contributer, I suspect my information is correct.
>>
>>] David will be most interested to hear that. AFAIK, he's still writing.
>>]I believe they dropped the "Companion" edition, but the normal Unleashed
>>]is going ahead. 
>>
>>I quote a letter I received Feb 25:
>>     Hi John,
>>     Regarding the OS/2 Warp Unleashed 2nd edition book; our Publisher has 
>>     decided not to publish the 2nd edition. We were having some problems 
>>     with the lead authors and do not feel the 2nd edition will sell as 
>>     well as the first edition. 
>>     
>><snip>     
>>
>>     Cari
>>
>>
>>This from cskaggs@sams.mcp.com
>>
>>
>>Cheers
>>John Summerfield
>>Warped & Connected
>>Perth, Western Australia
>>OS2 support @ http://www.iinet.net.au/~summer/
>>Unsolicited sales messages cost you $US1000
>>
>  Do you still insist on posting this FUD in the face of David Moskowitz's
>reply. Either your calling him a liar or your a lunatic. I knwo David is
>on the mark with his public statements. You I don't know from a hole
>in the wall!!!   Get lost.

What kind of crap is this?  John doesn't deserve that type of childish post
simply because he has some info which is different from David's.  John's had a
lot of useful posts in these newsgroups and I would hate to see him "get
lost."  There are just too few useful presences in comp.o.o.* these days to
take this type of attitude.  Relax a bit and try to realize that a company as
large as SAMS publishing may have one unit spouting one line, while another
unit spouts an opposite line, not to mention the probability that they may
have changed positions over time.  Your overly simplistic either-or scenario
just doesn't wash.  I myself hope the book gets published.  It was invaluable
to me in dealing with Warp 3.  

- Scott

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Scott R. Eliason	scott-eliason@uiowa.edu
University of Iowa	http://www.avalon.net/~seliason