Re: a crazy idea -- the Book

2006-01-16 Thread Gary Benson
Meskauskas Audrius wrote: Printing the book would probably require the initial money investment. This probably can be solved at least in the two ways: 1. The FSF pays for printing of this book and then gets the profit from selling it. 2. All authors contribute for printing of this book and

Re: a crazy idea -- the Book

2006-01-16 Thread Meskauskas Audrius
Typically, the best books are written by the authors of the methods or other things that are present in the book. For instance, the Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual is present in near every serious biochemical laboratory, despite this book costs several hundreds of dollars. The book is

Re: a crazy idea -- the Book

2006-01-15 Thread Meskauskas Audrius
Great idea, I think! If this idea would move ahead, I am ready to join by writing sections about the javax.swing.text.html.parser, javax.rmi and org.omg. package groups. We maybe can divide chapters. I think, it would be good to have the printed book and not the web site content. Printing

Re: a crazy idea -- the Book

2006-01-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:51:04AM +1100, Raif S. Naffah wrote: hello all, with every visit to the bookstore i see new titles about java, swing, etc. most of them being just printed collections of already public APIs. Classpath is more than just a bunch of APIs, and if there's a book

Re: a crazy idea -- the Book

2006-01-15 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:38 +0100, Meskauskas Audrius wrote: Great idea, I think! If this idea would move ahead, I am ready to join by writing sections about the javax.swing.text.html.parser, javax.rmi and org.omg. package groups. We maybe can divide chapters. I think, it would be

a crazy idea -- the Book

2006-01-14 Thread Raif S. Naffah
hello all, with every visit to the bookstore i see new titles about java, swing, etc. most of them being just printed collections of already public APIs. Classpath is more than just a bunch of APIs, and if there's a book worth reading about Java (and free VMs) it would be about what this