> I'll say. The first version clearly acknowledged the contribution made by > Roger and the Hercules team - not directly to the writing, but recognising > how helpful Hercules had been. Perhaps that contribution shouldn't have been > acknowledged; who am I to say? If it had never been there we wouldn't miss > it. To put it in for six months then gratuitously and sneakily remove every > trace of it shows a *nasty* revisionist tendancy - and gives Roger and the > Hercules team a very public slap in the face, IMHO. Sure IBM supports the > principle of open-source - when it suits them. As far as I'm concerned, > they're on probation as from now.
OK, I've now been through it. As well as the missing chapter, a reference to Hercules in 13.1 (now 12.1, of course) has also been removed, and four URLs have disappeared from Appendix G4. Two were Jay's and are still accessible - the other two are not. http://www.snipix.freeserve.co.uk/hercules.htm gives a DNS error. Frankly, I'm not surprised - I too have shut a Freeserve site in the last six months. I left a redirector up, but not everyone knows how to do that. http://penguinvm.princeton.edu/hercules/linux.aws.gz throws up a 404, but some chopping of the URL eventually produces a redirect to linuxvm.org Overall it's a complete job - there were 69 references to Hercules in the old version, and there are none at all in the new one. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
