On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 16:18 +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-05-17 15:48:17 +0200, Bodo Bauer wrote:
> > We kind of finished the book in late 1999. But as it turned out, the
> > book was never printed. There are many reasons to why it came that way,
> > but it all boiled down to the fact that the publishing industry was
> > (is?) not ready for content licensed under something like the Free
> > Documentation License. So we gave up on all the fame and glory of a
> > printed publication and settled with publishing it online. This at least
> > made it available to a large audience and it seems we hit the nerve as
> > we got , and still get, a good number of hits on these pages and quite
> > some positive feedback.
> > 
> 
> Welcome Bodo :)

I've been the occasional lurker for a while... :)

> it works pretty well if you choose oreily as your publisher.
> The svn book is available under an open license from
> http://svnbook.org./
> 
> As is the latest book from Karl Fogel: "Producing Open Source Software".
> The book is available from http://www.producingoss.com/.
> 
> both are published by oreilly.

At the time O'Reily was the worst of all and didn't want to hear
anything about open licenses. Glad to hear they changed their mind.

> hope this helps

I'm not really interested in having a printed copy anymore. That's why I
put it out there...

BB

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