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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:24:29 -0800 To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Advertising in our HOWTOs From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> --OaZoDhBhXzo6bW1J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable begin Seth David Schoen quotation: > Should we try to get a statement from the LDP folks? They may not even > know that this an issue, especially if they're not directly editing each > new HOWTO edition. Some data that may bear on this: o LDP is said to be a collaboration of numerous volunteers. I see no information on its structure. o Joshua Drake is one of two current webmasters for www.linuxdoc.org . He's the fellow who included the advertisement/hyperlink to=20 acknowledge a grant (?) from OpenDocs Publishing, LLC. (Perhaps OpenDocs's "funding" for open-source software documentation via its OpenSource Documentation Fund initiative is conditioned on=20 inclusion of embedded advertisements?) o Drake is also the DNS Technical Contact, Administrative Contact, _and_ Billing Contact for the linuxdoc.org domain. He is also the _registrant_ of the domain (or rather his consulting firm is -- see below). In a functional sense, he owns the LDP. o Drake appears to have been the leading proponent of the LDP's still-stalled conversion from LinuxDoc to the much-more-complex=20 DocBook DTD, which you may recall is opposed by LDP founder Matt Welsh. o OpenDocs Publishing, LLC is a commercial print publisher with three=20 current titles (Linux-oriented technical books) plus one in the offing. See the LDP's "News" item for May 26, 2000. o OpenDocs is partially owned by Command Prompt, Inc. of Oregon (www.commandprompt.com), Drake's consulting company. See: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Consultants-HOWTO/x38544.html All of us have business interests: Mr. Drake seems to have a difficult time forebearing from using the Linux community's central documentation repositories to flog them. And he appears to be situated such that he can do so with impunity. === To: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org> From: Perrin Harkins <perrin@primenet.com> Subject: Re: How to recognize server shutdown? Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:26:44 -0800 (PST) On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > the parent process doesn't run the END block. Randal's solution is probably better, but it's a bummer that the parent doesn't run END blocks. Will it run cleanup handlers? - Perrin ===