From: Alexandre Dulaunoy <adulau@...>
Date: 2006-05-18T05:11:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ticked Off

On 5/15/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I'll admit it. I'm really pissed off. I don't pay attention to
> what goes on on the #ruby-talk IRC channel these days all that much,
> but something happened this afternoon that thoroughly pissed me off.
>
>   [0515/16.53] hatezilla: seriously, pick it up. if you're iffy, get
> on emule and search
>   for "ruby for rails" ... there's tons of pdfs floating around if you
> know where to look
>
> I consider David Black a friend of mine. I am *seriously* pissed off
> that some pissant little freak would advocate this action at all. I
> was similarly annoyed that people reacted as badly to Dave Thomas's
> announcement that the Rails 2nd Edition would be the same price. These
> people have done a *lot* for the Ruby community.
>
> They deserve your financial support. Don't be a pissant thief. Even
> temporarily. There are "sample chapters" for a reason.

On the other side, we should also promote the creation of free
software and _free documentation_. I'm already a big book buyer but
I'm always in favor to buy a book when the book (or the older
revision) is falling into the public domain (or under a free license)
after a short period like 2 or 4 years after its publication.

Just my 0.02 EUR,

adulau