From: Friedrich Dominicus Date: 2004-07-10T00:27:31+09:00 Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing Dave Thomas writes: > 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. Well it corresponds with my experiences, not with books but with all kind of "free beer" things... It's annoying to see that hard work (and this is what it takes to write a book) is not honored.... However I feel not guilty because I bought that book. It was my "step-into" ruby. I struggled more then once with RIDE which is one of the most unusable things I happened to use, but just checked ot ArachnoRuby later and guess what happens Arachno works, but on recommodations Ride is mentioned over and over again. > > So, for the new book, we won't initially be releasing the entire book > for free. Seems to be a good idea for me. Regards Friedrich -- Please remove just-for-news- to reply via e-mail.