On Monday 02 Nov 2009 07:19:30 Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "RW" == Raymond Wan <r....@aist.go.jp> writes: > > RW> Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>>>> "mb" == mahesh bhasme <mbha...@gmail.com> writes: > > mb> Hi, > mb> below link might help to u > > >> that is exactly what randal said he didn't want to see, a bootleg copy > >> of his book. you won't be getting any more help from him and probably > >> most of the experts here. that copy is illegal and takes income out of > >> randal's pocket. do you understand what that is? > > RW> Perhaps the blame should be equally leveled at the web site and maybe > RW> it should be brought to the attention of O'Reilly? > > sure o'reilly should be notified but the poster is to be blamed since he > must know about this. randal even mentioned it not too long ago. > > RW> Not every book that is on-line is illegal and this might confuse some > RW> people. (Two examples I can think of are the O'Reilly Mason book and > RW> the SVN book...at least, the last time I checked.) > > a few of their books are released for free on the net. not any of the > perl books afaik. >
Some O'Reilly Perl books (not on the core topics) are available online: * http://books.perl.org/onlinebooks In my opinion, this a relatively poor selection of books, though I'm aware of some other books besides those: http://perl-begin.org/books/ I've written about why books should be made available online here: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/closed-books-are-so-19th- century/ (short URL - http://shlom.in/closed-books ) Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
