Well, I think that you are going a little bit too far with your comment.. It sounds like 'we, Americans ( US Citizens ), the good, honest guys, despise those awful, filthy thieves ( not US Citizens )'... Sorry, but I do not particularly like generalizations like that & it hurts me when I'm being referred to like that ( being an European )... Regards, Ela > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Bradshaw, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Juni 2001 15:34 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: RE: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl > > > Unfortunately, foreign nationals do not have respect for the rights of > American created property. > > It is a problem running rampant. We have had foreign > nationals pirate our > code and ideas along with the books whose copyrights are ignored. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Beginer...Any free resources for Learning Perl > > > 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] > > -- > > Drugs are just bad m'kay >
