Re: [Gnu-arch-users] an accidental book

[Thomas Lord]

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