From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T00:18:49+09:00
Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing

On Friday 09 July 2004 07:47, Dave Thomas wrote:
>
> 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.

Good for you!  You shouldn't be expected to give the fruits of your labor away 
for free.  I can't wait to see how it turned out.

	Sean O'Dell