From: Mike Gordon
To: ask_tim@oreilly.com
Subject: No Mac content on your website?
Tim,
The subject says it all. I visited your site and was appalled to see that you listed every single OS I recognize except the MacOS. What gives? 3Com seems to realize there are a lot of Mac users with PalmPilots. Do you?
Mike Gordon
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Mike,
Hmmm. We actually started work on a Mac publishing program last year, just when everyone else was deserting the market. I signed the Be books when BeOS was positioned as an alternate OS to the Mac; we did a book on Frontier, which at the time was a Mac-based web authoring and scripting solution (it's now cross platform); we have a MacOS in a Nutshell in the works, as well as a Mac-Windows compatibility book.
We used to do UNIX and Internet only. Over the past couple of years we've been branching out, but it takes time for stuff that starts at one end of the editorial pipeline to make it out the other, especially if you care about quality.
--Tim
