Unfortunately, foreign nationals do not have respect for the rights of
American created property.
It is a problem running rampant. We have had foreign nationals pirate our
code and ideas along with the books whose copyrights are ignored.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl
He does, indeed, happily distribute pirate copies of Perl (and other) books
to anyone who asks. A few weeks ago I found a complete copy of my book on
his website (thanks to Google now indexing PDF files). Manning asked him to
remove it, which he did, but a few days later he was happy to email me a
copy when I asked him to.
I'm not the only Perl author on this list. How do the others feel? Am I
the only one that gets really angry when some idiot from Israel decides
he has the right to give away the fruits of your labour?
To the people that might be interested in Genie's treasure trove - many
Perl authors give a lot of time free to support the Perl community. If
they want to make a little (and it's really not very much) money back by
writing books then you should support their efforts and not rip them off
by getting pirate copies like these.
Dave...
[this really _is_ a hot topic recently. this is the third place I've
has this dicussion in the last three weeks]
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