On Tue, 31 May 2011 14:49:26 +0200 Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com> wrote:
> michael.vancann...@wisa.be schrieb: > > >> Just some of the eBook advantages: > [...] > > > The main argument contra - as I recall it - was that PDFs can be illegally > > copied, and this was used to wipe away all the possible advantages. > > That's true only for people that make their living from writing and > selling books. When a program/project is available for free, why > shouldn't the documentation come for free as well? There is no real need > that the book writers should earn money, while the coders should not. The writers don't earn much money. Writing a book is a lot of work and you have to sell a lot of books, before it pays out. OTOH having a book helps the project and therefore the coders. > In practice I agree that it can be hard work, to write a book about > mostly undocumented code like FPC and Lazarus, and even I've been > thinking about providing *and* selling according documentation myself. > But I would have done that by myself, in digital form, without an > professional publisher who wouldn't work for free... Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
