From: Mike Wilson Date: 2001-02-22T22:30:12+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11308] Re: Programming Ruby is now online >From: andy@toolshed.com (Andrew Hunt) >Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org >To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML), ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp >Subject: [ruby-talk:11307] Re: Programming Ruby is now online >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:10:18 +0900 > >On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:48:01 +0900, Jim Freeze wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Dave Thomas wrote: > > > > > > > The book is released under an Open Publication license, so you're >free > > > > > to make copies--see the file COPYING in the download for details. > > >Quite the opposite, I think. I've been lured by a number of openly >available texts (or MP3's) and then gone on to buy the real article. >It's very handy to have a clickable, searchable version of a reference >manual, but there are times (especially when you aren't sure what you're >looking for) that you want the paper version. I need and use both, so >I think in the long term this will both help sales of the book and >further promote Ruby to those with casual interest. > >/\ndy > Just curious, has anyone submitted this news to any websites (i.e. slashdot, kuo5hin, etc?)? Anyone have any problems with it? Any suggestions for sites to submit to, other than those mentioned? Mike Wilson Unix Administrator http://ruby.weblogs.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com