Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-28 Thread Johan Vromans
Elaine Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I do seem to recall Tim himself asking all the authors to release their books to an open license after a certain number of years. The intent was to put books under CC license 5 years after publishing. The message also noted that the respective

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Elaine == Elaine Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elaine Get over it Randal. People can get a lot of content right out of Elaine Google books these days. Not to mention a lot of those are either out Elaine of print or open licensed. I downloaded a full copy of the NIS and NFS Elaine book the

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-25 Thread Elaine Ashton
On 25 Oct, 2008, at 1:04, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: And none of that is relevant to the content on the referenced site that is indeed pirated. Given that most of those books are more than 10 years oldit's a fine line between pirated and long since out of print. You should be

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-25 Thread George Magklaras
Elaine Ashton wrote: You should be tickled anyone finds perl still interesting enough to actually pirate the books. Ehmm, finding perl interesting today has nothing to do with whether Perl material is pirated or not. :-) GM

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Steven == Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven What's this got to do with Perl: Steven http://freecomputerbooks.com/langPerlBooks.html Many of those are pirated. Not cool to post links to pirated books. Shame on you. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-24 Thread Elaine Ashton
On 23 Oct, 2008, at 14:07, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Steven == Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steven What's this got to do with Perl: Steven http://freecomputerbooks.com/langPerlBooks.html Many of those are pirated. Not cool to post links to pirated books. Shame on you. Get

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-17 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's this got to do with Perl: http://freecomputerbooks.com/langPerlBooks.html Why might we care? Given the amount of good work available about Perl (and Parrot), this page should fall off the screen. That

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-17 Thread Andy Lester
Given the amount of good work available about Perl (and Parrot), this page should fall off the screen. That sure looks like those sites that steal content to get people to click on ads. Most of that content is pirated. I already sent it in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's got a surprising amount

Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-16 Thread Steven Lembark
What's this got to do with Perl: http://freecomputerbooks.com/langPerlBooks.html Not all of these are books per se. For example, http://www.faqs.org/docs/perl5int/ is Simon Cozens' rather nice intro to Perl5's guts. Why might we care? Given the amount of good work available about

Re: Interesting place: free books online

2008-10-16 Thread Jacinta Richardson
Steven Lembark wrote: What's this got to do with Perl: http://freecomputerbooks.com/langPerlBooks.html Not all of these are books per se. For example, http://www.faqs.org/docs/perl5int/ is Simon Cozens' rather nice intro to Perl5's guts. Why might we care? Given the