From: Dale Martenson <dmartenson@...>
Date: 2004-09-17T00:27:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Programming Ruby available for pre-order

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Sinclair [mailto:gsinclair@soyabean.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 9:44 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [ANN] Programming Ruby available for pre-order
> 
> 
> On Thursday, September 16, 2004, 11:40:51 PM, Dave wrote:
> 
> >> How (il)legal is it to install the PDF on a colleague's machine ?
> 
> > About the same as photocopying the paper book and giving 
> your colleague
> > the copy :)
> 
> So what's the digital equivalent of leaving your book on his desk for
> a couple of days?

Burn the PDF on a CD and keep this as your digital copy. When you share the
CD, only one person has exclusive access to it. 

If you place the PDF in a shared area (networked drive, etc.), you are
allowing all who have access to the shared area the same level of access at
the same time.

Another solution would be to offer a higher priced site license, for cases
where multiple programmers wish to share the PDF. But that may not fit with
the way Dave and Andy wish to sell their work.