On 6/22/10 1:09 PM, John Bokma wrote: > Now let's hope that your asshat behaviour doesn't stop companies like > this to continue to print those books. I have considered to buy the > complete set a few times. And I hope you're not calling me naive...
Excuse me? I *have* seen people burned by confusion over situations *extremely* similar to this; there's quite a lot of content which is being scraped off of the internet and bundled into "books" and posted up on Amazon and the like. From both technical sources and things like Wikipedia. Yes. I read every single word available on the page. Yes. I read the claims that they are donating some proceeds to the PSF. Yes, I read that it (very poorly) identified what version of Python it was covering. Yes, it looks sort of above board visually. That doesn't mean it is: and considering I have *experience* dealing with things that look a lot like this that *are* scams, I wondered. So I spoke up and asked to see if anyone knew if it was really legit, after I found no evidence in a couple Google searches of any legitimate or even quasi-existing entity behind the products. If being concerned about fellow Python-folks possibly getting ripped off makes me an asshat, so be it. Go y'know-what yourself. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
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