Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: Planning to translate PHP Manual into a book..

[Egon Schmid]

Hojtsy Gabor wrote:
> 
> > (and don't be afraid that making your stuff free will
> > harm sales, it will most likely be the other way round
> > making people buy the book instead of printing out
> > the manual themselves)
> 
> The same happened to some Hungarian books (free online
> version and a book), and it works very well. And see
> http://www.docbook.org/

Huh, do you mean Norman Walsh's book TDG? The situation here is very
different from our case. Norman is the leader of the DocBook effort and
he will receive money from the publisher. If you read this online,
Norman gets no money. Anyway, DocBook is like PHP a Open Source Software
and to publish a book is commercial. Tell me a publisher who publish a
book and give it away as gift. 

If someone will translate the PHP manual and publish it (through a
publisher), the original authors don't get money. This is IMHO
plagiarism.

-Egon