Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?

[alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com>]

Hello all and hello Stallman,

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:

    If it is going to be sold via Amazon, GNOME might want to look into
    the Amazon non-profit affiliates program.

Please don't encourage anyone to buy from Amazon.  See
stallman.org/amazon.html for the many bad things that Amazon does --
to independent book stores, publishers, authors, its workers,
and its customers.

I was wondering if you have to encouraging anyone to buy a book about GNOME from anywhere, and not just Amazon. 

There are so many people that work without a profit, why you should promote something "sell-able" only?

I was hopping GNOME to have its own free book. We are in 2013, everything is online for free (at least in Free Software)

and everything changes so fast, which a book will become obsolete in around 1 month. 

No need to mention that many people don't have money to buy it. Should we pay for knowledge?

Nothing offensive to book author, just a thought. 

- alex  

 

Amazon e-books are particularly hostile to readers' freedom: see
stallman.org/ebooks.pdf.

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