On 3 Nov 2005 at 19:49, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:50 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
What is misleading about announcing a book?
What is misleading is that the author has chosen to send unsolicited
commercial email to the list in an attempt to make is t seem
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 00:53 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 3 Nov 2005 at 19:49, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:50 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
What is misleading about announcing a book?
What is misleading is that the author has chosen
Just a thought, should we find out how much of Mary's book has been lifted
verbatim from the Documentation Project, before finding her behavior crass and
despicable?
In a message dated 11/5/2005 10:09:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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I wonder how much of Mary's
On November 4, 2005 01:53 am, Larry Gusaas wrote:
I do not see any problem and you have not explained what the problem is.
The problem I see is that you are against authors making a living from
their work. I suppose you want all music and art to be free as well.
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Larry I. Gusaas,
Moose
I wish to thank Mr. Singleton and all the authors involved for their fine work
on the documentation
project. It has been very useful to me in learning the features of OOo.
I also wish to thank Mr. Singleton for his ill-informed tirade against 'Free
Software For
Dummies'. Contrary to his
I gotta say, there is nothing wrong with making a living. I do it every day.
I work on networks - selling my expertise - using the information gleaned
from the newsgroups and other online documentation.I CHARGE for that, if
I did not, then I couldn't contribute as a volunteer because I
James White wrote:
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But that isn't how I see this case. The book costs $14. Nobody is getting
rich. It's a LOT of work to make a book and there are huge costs to
consider. And books are certainly beneficial. Should we forbid books about
anything opensource? Of course not.
The only
No I have an objection to users being misled. THere is a manual that put
profits back into OOo and I would prefer to think that there are many
who do not know that the printed guide from OOo is available. I also
object to publishing companies and their authors using this list for
UCE. You seem
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:37 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:20 -0600, Mary Leete wrote:
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If anyone is looking for a great manual, Free Software For Dummies,
includes about 200 pages on OpenOffice.org 2.0. It's newly published
and received excellent
On 2 Nov 2005 at 14:54, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:20 -0600, Mary Leete wrote:
Congratulations to all who worked on OOo 2.0! It's fabulous!
If anyone is looking for a great manual, Free Software For Dummies,
includes about 200 pages on OpenOffice.org
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