From: Mc Mohd Date: 2008-06-06T01:09:22+09:00 Subject: Re: A complete guide for Ruby Progammers Friends, We had put lot of effort to bring this English Ruby tutorial online but instead of any appreciation people started blaming us. I found out "Ruby in a Nutshell" on the net and if you see itself is a copy of standard ruby manual. I found few pieces copied from this book and according to my fellow writer he found this content interesting on the net and tried to incorporate here. So finally I tried to remove that content. I've gone through 8 books while compiling this content. We are not a research scholars who do R&D and then write a book. Like other authors, we also took many things as reference while writing this tutorial. Anyway, if you did not like it then we are sorry....but I can say there are few books who gives you clear understanding on Ruby-on-Rails, Ruby/TK etc. if you have one then pls let me know. Thanks Mohtashim Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Lyle Johnson > wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Ron Fox wrote: >> >>> Stealing from yourself is not plagiarism. >> >> No, but stealing from other authors' work is. So unless the authors of >> "Progamming Ruby" and "Ruby in a Nutshell" have approved this "reuse" of >> their work, there's a problem. > > Yes, there's a problem - however, assuming this is actually edited > into a new coherent whole (I didn't see if there were new bits, it > looked familiar from many years back) there's also some amount of work > done. Assuming the author is misguided rather than malicious, we > should applaud him for that work, even if he's using sources wrongly, > and then try to help him do things in a way that's more generally > accepted in a copyright-focused world. > > Eivind. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.