On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Dan Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 at 08:27AM -0700, kcrisman wrote: >> FYI - see Dan Drake's recent letter to the editor in the MAA FOCUS >> magazine. Page 2. >> >> http://digital.ipcprintservices.com/publication/?i=107069 >> >> This is not directly related to Sage development, but the open/non-DRM >> issue is certainly relevant. Good work! > > Here's my original version, with links: > http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake/maa_ebook_drm.html > > Also note that in the couple weeks since that appeared, Tor books have > dropped DRM. See some of Charlie Stross's comments: > > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/more-on-drm-and-ebooks.html > > and his post on Amazon's ebook strategy: > > http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html >
Thanks for these links! > The MAA exists to serve the mathematical community. I believe -- and > between the evidence in my editorial and the Tor announcement, many > others also believe -- that DRM ebooks don't serve the mathematical > community. > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake > ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > ------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
