I gotta say, there is nothing wrong with making a living. I do it every day.
I work on networks - selling my expertise - using the information gleaned
from the newsgroups and other online documentation. I CHARGE for that, if
I did not, then I couldn't contribute as a volunteer because I would be, of
course, dead from starvation and exposure (I live in Canada so cardboard
boxes don't cut it).
The points I have read so far are all valid. It would anger me greatly to see
my hard volunteer work being sold to make some slacker rich.
But that isn't how I see this case. The book costs $14. Nobody is getting
rich. It's a LOT of work to make a book and there are huge costs to
consider. And books are certainly beneficial. Should we forbid books about
anything opensource? Of course not.
The only real problem that I see here, and that is easily corrected, is that
the author isn't giving anything BACK to all of us who worked so hard - for
free - to give him the contents of his book.
Loosen up the purse strings a bit and say "Thanks" by giving 10% or more back
to oOffice.
And remember, once - to an interested party - is fine. Anything more is SPAM
and you need to be shot right after your arms are ripped from your screaming,
writhing body that is still glistening from all of the boiling oil that was
poured all over the festering wounds you were inflicted with for your
spamming crimes against humanity. :P
--
James White
"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs."
-- Robert Firth
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