Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?



Hello all,

So far as I can understand:

1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS products with explanation on how they will work together to help the reader create more free software.
2. Manuals are and must be free.

So, the bone of contention is "a manual" Vs "a collation of manuals with input that bridges them relevance between them" (under the term "development guide"). 

My two cents is that going by the rule of free works and their derivatives must also be free, the author should consider releasing the book under a free license and to be fair to the effort the author has put in, he should charge a fee for the hardcopy/printed/paper edition.

Thank you.

On 08-Mar-2013, at 3:05 AM, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:

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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