"Education (or knowledge depending on how you translate it) is As Indispensable As Water and Air" -- Taha Hussein (an Egyptian scholar)
One of the maing benefits of Free Software is Free education, I don't understand when a Free Software proponent do not also support just as much free education in the form of free docs and books On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Matt Rosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I am very much for both free and commercial docs. The more docs > of both types the better. > I would prefer that experts loved by the community be given incentives > to do both. > > Books are nice, but I would probably prefer purchasing just the > digital version of a book right now. > No shipping or printing costs, always at my fingertips. > Ideally it would include a lifetime ID so I could download it with > revisions and code forever, so if I lost the data I could get it > again. > It would have to be unencumbered and preferably both a PDF and pod versions. > > I'd like recognition of a relationship and credit toward future > purchases. As a loyal customer I tend to repurchase things I like over > the years, multiple times. > > I wonder if it could be made cheaper by forgoing the physical printing > but giving the author/editor/publishing team the same profit. That > might make it easier for more people to get hold of it. > > My 2 yen, > > Matt R. > > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/