From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T00:02:26+09:00
Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing

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Dave Thomas wrote:

| Folks:
|
| I've been thinking long and hard about the licensing of the new version
| of the PickAxe.
|
| As you know, soon after publishing the original book we released it for
| free under an open license. We did this for two reasons. First, we
| wanted to see the Ruby community grow, and we felt that having the book
| available would help. We think that this happened. Second, we hoped that
| we'd set a trend, and that all Ruby books would end up open-sourced.
| This didn't happen. In fact, what seemed to  happen is that folks picked
| up the free version of the PickAxe and used the money they'd saved to
| buy one of the other, closed titles.
|
| So, for the new book, we won't initially be releasing the entire book
| for free. Instead, we'll be contributing to the community in different
| ways. First, I've already taken all the updated reference section (with
| something like 150 new or significantly different methods) and released
| it to core developers. It's been used to add RDoc comments to the Ruby
| source. That represented many months of work.  Second, we'll use the
| fact that we're in control of the publishing process to keep the costs,
| and hence the price, down.
|
| I wanted to announce this now so there's no surprise when the book comes
| out (probably in October).
|
|
| Cheers
|
| Dave
|

If it's only half as well done as the first book, it will have to be in
my library. It's only fair that you would collect some money for your work.

Looking forward to that book !

kaspar

semantics & semiotics
code manufacture

www.tua.ch/ruby
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