[#10209] Market for XML Web stuff — Matt Sergeant <matt@...>

I'm trying to get a handle on what the size of the market for AxKit would be

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[#10238] RFC: RubyVM (long) — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

Hi,

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[#10364] Re: RFC: RubyVM (long) — Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...> 2001/02/05

[#10708] Suggestion for threading model — Stephen White <spwhite@...>

I've been playing around with multi-threading. I notice that there are

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[#10853] Re: RubyChangeRequest #U002: new proper name for Hash#indexes, Array#indexes — "Mike Wilson" <wmwilson01@...>

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[#11037] to_s and << — "Brent Rowland" <tarod@...>

list = [1, 2.3, 'four', false]

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[#11094] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

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[#11131] Re: Summary: RCR #U002 - proper new name fo r indexes — "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@...>

Robert Feldt wrote:

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[#11251] Programming Ruby is now online — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

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[#11469] XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)

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[#11490] Re: XML-RPC and KDE — schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig) 2001/02/24

Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:

[#11491] Negative Reviews for Ruby and Programming Ruby — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2001/02/24

Hi all:

[#11633] RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

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[#11652] RE: RCR: shortcut for instance variable initialization — Michael Davis <mdavis@...>

I like it!

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[#11700] Starting Once Again — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

OK, I'm starting again with Ruby. I'm just assuming that I've

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[#11712] RE: Starting Once Again — "Aaron Hinni" <aaron@...> 2001/02/27

> 2. So far I think running under TextPad will be better than running

[#11726] Re: Starting Once Again — Aleksi Niemel<zak@...> 2001/02/28

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Aaron Hinni wrote:

[ruby-talk:11273] Re: Programming Ruby is now online

From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-22 01:10:03 UTC
List: ruby-talk #11273
"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:

> If you wrote the book as a "work for hire" then you might
> want to check with a lawyer as to whether you can release
> under another license (the copyright having passed to the
> publisher).  But I suspect that you still own the copyright
> to the text (again I am not a lawyer) in which case you can
> release any number of times.

OK, for (as we non-lawyers say) the avoidance of doubt...

Addison Wesley is the copyright holder in the book: the copyright was
assigned to them when we delivered the text. As the copyright holder,
they can do pretty much what they want with it.

When we got the idea to release the book under some open license, I
approached our editor, Mike Hendrickson, and sent him a sample of the
Open Publication license. He got back to me within a week,
enthusiastically embracing the idea of open-sourcing the book. He has
the copyright, so he can do that. The files we released still contain
the Addison Wesley copyright, but they're licensed for Open
Publication. It just the same as Ruby itself: Matz copyrights the
code, and licenses it freely for us to use.

Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes:

> I'm curious though, no party's had an objection to releasing the
> book online in fear that it would decrease sales of the book?

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm not really that worried, to
be honest. Selling books is not really a living, it's just fun. What
_would_ give me a buzz though is seeing the Ruby community grow. This
might be a small step along the way.



So there's no problem, really.


Share and enjoy.


Dave

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