From: Cameron McBride Date: 2004-07-10T02:59:40+09:00 Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing Dave, > First, we wanted to see the Ruby community grow, and we felt that > having the book available would help. We think that this happened. agreed, and thank you. Even for us "lurkers", we really appreciated it. > 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, in my case, the largest motivation for the purchase (Pickaxe being my 1st ruby book) was due to its public release. Evangelisting ruby was great when you could point people to a URL of a page you just found useful. > I wanted to announce this now so there's no surprise when the book > comes out (probably in October). thanks again, and understandable. but really - with the 1st book still out there, and updated ri docs in the distro and on ruby-doc.org, I don't really see any neglect. The 1st pickaxe is still a fine piece of work, and goes a long way describing the rubyway. In any case, I'll pick up a copy of #2 (can't wait). Oh, and I think an HTML version would be fantastic - I'd find it really useful. Cameron