I'm new to perl and I feel that since all the software is free and everyone
is so helpful, I kind of owe it to the community to buy legal copies of
books (which is good for the authors 'cause I buy loads of books).
Regards,
Sally
-----Original Message-----
From: Pate Mark-marpate1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 June 2001 09:08
To: 'Dave Cross'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl
Hi Dave,
As a non-author and someone who rarely contributes to the list (i.e. I just
absorb expertise from yourself and other experts), I am absolutely disgusted
with this practice - and I am sure that IBM (his supposed current employer
would not like to be affiliated with someone who blatantly infringes
copyright law.
I for one hope that this "Genie" return to his lamp and never be let out
again - He has certainly earned a mail filter to my trash can!
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 June 2001 07:48
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Evgeny Goldin (aka Genie)
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Check up my catalog at :
> [url removed]
>
> It's only a catalog but I upload titles from it upon request.
He does, indeed, happily distribute pirate copies of Perl (and other) books
to anyone who asks. A few weeks ago I found a complete copy of my book on
his website (thanks to Google now indexing PDF files). Manning asked him to
remove it, which he did, but a few days later he was happy to email me a
copy when I asked him to.
I'm not the only Perl author on this list. How do the others feel? Am I
the only one that gets really angry when some idiot from Israel decides
he has the right to give away the fruits of your labour?
To the people that might be interested in Genie's treasure trove - many
Perl authors give a lot of time free to support the Perl community. If
they want to make a little (and it's really not very much) money back by
writing books then you should support their efforts and not rip them off
by getting pirate copies like these.
Dave...
[this really _is_ a hot topic recently. this is the third place I've
has this dicussion in the last three weeks]
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