hello,
the price is still very cheap. The documentation is always what is painfull
to keep up to date but save you hours of ramp up time. Most of the
developpers are ready to buy java books for 40$ so why not for up to date
documentation.
regards,
philippe
-----Original Message-----
From: marc fleury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Luke Taylor; jboss-development
Subject: RE: Book. Was Re: [JBoss-dev] /. -> want you to tell about my
fears ....
The model for the book and documentation is that we are going to only
support the professional documentation.
Free documentation is just too hard, the guys who write it usually do it and
leave, it comes under heavy criticism still today (see theserverside.com
thread) and generally has been a pain. I have had enough of it.
We are going to a model where you pay for the documentation, the free doco
is just going to die. I don't think I will even distribute it any more.
Take Dain's stuff, you can use the product for free but if you want the
documentation for it you are going to pay $5 for Dain's documentation, same
for the clustering you are going to be paying for Sacha's documentation.
All the features are there in the free product but if you want the
documentation we are going to sell it for a fee. Most of the money goes to
the writter of the feature (i don't want 3rd party writting doco and making
money of it) I want doco from the guy who writes the features.
simple, will work, is already working, we are selling.
"The meal is free, the service is not included"
This is a simple way to make some money FOR THE DEVELOPERS OF THE FEATURES
and grow professionally.
If the guys reading the statement are too cheap to shell out $10 for the
documentation I am really not going to worry about them, I am not very
concerned about them. In fact I want them gone,
marcf
|-----Original Message-----
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|[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Luke
|Taylor
|Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:27 PM
|To: jboss-development
|Subject: Book. Was Re: [JBoss-dev] /. -> want you to tell about my fears
|....
|
|
|Scott Stark wrote:
| >
|
|> So if this 400 page book I have in front of me, which is undergoing
|> author review through Sams and will be released to Flashline next
|> week doesn't constitute active maintenance, what does?
|>
|
|
|Hi Scott,
|
|Does the book cover any of the new JBoss 3.0 stuff? I'm trying to write
|sensible FAQ questions and realising that I don't know JBoss 3 answers
|myself yet.
|
|Luke.
|
|
|
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