>> I would prefer to know the face behind the voice rather than >> some kind of single nameless impersonal corporate identity, but >> maybe that's just me. I like being able to browse through the >> books in the store, see a new one by someone I recognize (like, >> say, Randal Schwartz or Ken Williams :), and be able to compare >> reference material by authors I respect. > >Well, it may be unusual in the open source business, but I have a >whole shelf of stuff here in my home office that I've written that >doesn't have any indication of my name on it. That's the norm when >techwriting manuals for companies, as opposed to writing for bookstore >publication.
Right. My impression of the process is: a) If you regain copyright, you regain author bios. b) If you sell your rights, then it becomes the company's. Since I sold my rights on the Apple article, it's not my place to say "hey! make sure you place my name prominently on the piece. hoo hah!" >Of course, we authors always figured out "slartibartfast in the >fjords" ways of getting our signatures in the book somehow. One time, >I stuck it in the ASCII values of a string that appears only in hex, Exactly. My article uses "morbus" as the dummy username, an obvious giveaway. -- Morbus Iff ( united we're bland ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ Tech: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 - articles and weblog icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
