On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, at 13:15 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> O'rielly is a great company.  I have a ton of their books.  They have
> done a significant amount for the Open Source community.  Yet Tim
> doesn't open source all his books.  Why? Because he knows that a new
> company would open up overnight and take all the margins out his
> business.  They would do nothing but print and bind.  

Tim O'reilly has stated several times publically that they are more than
willing to "open source" books, and that they leave it to the author's
discretion.   I'm sure that they don't go out of their way to encourage
this though.

-- 
Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>          http://www.dasbistro.com/~sam/
San Francisco                                                 California


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