It is a new mentality that seems to have taken over the last few decades with the open source movement.
Many seem to believe that everything should be free. Problem is, if people produced works for free, how would they support their families? I can understand the open source end where people donate their free time to build something better. But at the same time, I ask myself how these people would survive if they didn't have their day jobs -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 10:01 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Free tech books On 7/2/2013 5:42 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > On 2 July 2013 22:21, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> At 13:15 2013-07-02, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Stephen Russell >>>> <[email protected] >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> http://it-ebooks.info/ >>>>> >>>>> eBooks that is. A Whole lot to pick. >> >>> I'm sorry. Why is it you think that Apress and O'Reilly and PragProg >>> are giving away their books on the internet? >>> >>> I believe you spelled "stolen" wrong. >> >> And one of the Apress books that they have [stolen] is one that >> I was a technical reviewer for. I would like the opportunity to make >> more money doing technical reviewing. The particular book I am >> referring to has an E-book price of $34.99 on Apress's Website. > > Registered to a Russian address. Hosted by: http://root.lu > (Luxembourg) > > I've fired off an email to them but don't expect much. What's in it for them to do this? They're not making money obviously since it's free. ??? -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
