Fair enough - I prefer to consult it on screen personally.
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:25, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:35, C Falconer wrote:
> > Don't forget I can print you one at cost for $19.
> >
> > Thats bound in a spiraly plastic binding, with laminated covers.
> >
> > (and it is within the terms of the RUTE licence, because you are
> > instituting the printing of the book.)
>
> Thanks for your offer which I will decline with grace mainly because:
> 1) I can't read the small print of your 2-up print format very well, now that
> the eyes are not in the flush of youth anymore;
>
> 2) Personally, I find that while the strictly legal interpretation of the word
> "initiate" may allow commissioned printing, my personal feelings are that the
> author has put an enormous amount of effort into writing the tome, and he
> should be rewarded for those efforts. It's by far the best out there as far
> as I can tell. At $86nz the cost of the printed book is actually quite
> reasonable especially when compared with some of the hugely expensive but
> semi-literate and delightfully information-free works which are dumped on the
> market by sharp operators in the publishing business. What may be legal is
> not always "the right thing to do" from a moral standpoint.
>
>
> > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:13, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:24, Tim Wright wrote:
> > > > Well, I'm back..and unfortunatly didn't find a bookstore that stocked
> > > > it. However, their RRP (they could have ordered it) was US$40.
> > >
> > > So the Amazon cost of $86nz looks pretty good.
> > >
> > > btw, Has anybody had a chance to have a good look at this yet?
> > > A paraphrased comment from a newby was that it's "Completely over my
> > > head, total waste of money". I've been at this Linux game for a fair
> > > while now so tend to disagree with the newbie's feelings on the subject,
> > > but I am wondering what other folks think? The reason for the question is
> > > that I would be grateful for the list's wisdom so that I can give these
> > > Avonmore students a wider opinion than just my own, which btw is "Good
> > > reference and learning resource, possibly too deep too soon". It seems to
> > > go from computing sub-basics to pretty solid stuff in just a page or two.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sincerely etc.,
> > > Christopher Sawtell
>
> --
> Sincerely etc.,
> Christopher Sawtell
