Why should it be free? It might be nice to have an electronic copy, or just permission to scan and release, in escrow. That could be done quietly between Didier and ESUG, and triggered if the book is no longer in print. If it is in print and the code is worth having we should be buying copies. To do otherwise undercuts investment by both the author and the publisher.
I bought Numerical Recipes with a much smaller carrot than MIT source. The only reason I did not buy the book long ago is that the mix of topics was not a direct match for me, and because I generally look for C code that I can compile into libraries with clean interfaces. I do more FFT, DWT than anything else; if they are in the book, I missed it. Bill ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geert Claes [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license Maybe a silly question, but it is the "code" of the book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods", so the book itself won't be available for free? Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > > I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT. > Thanks! > > > Didier Besset wrote: >> >> Begin forwarded message: >>> From: Didier Besset <[email protected]> >>> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00 >>> To: Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Disclaimer >>> >>> I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of >>> Numerical Methods" under the > > MIT license. >>> >>> Didier Besset >> > -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Object-Oriented-Implementation-of-Numerical-Methods-under-the-MIT-license-tp2996028p2996578.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
