Fernando Perez wrote: > It's funny how I don't see anyone complaining about any of the Python books > sold here (or at any other publishing house):
That is maybe because the language is fairly well documented to begin with. Try to imagine for a moment how many people would use Python if on the first page of documentation you'd see a link sending you to buy the book... No one is questioning one's right to try to sell a product/book etc. But I happen to believe that trying to make money by selling the docs is stupid, you'll scare away potential users, hinder the acceptance of the product, further fragment the community of users needing such functionality. Once I hit the page asking me to pay even before telling me what NumPy does, I went back to Numeric. Even now I can't tell in what way is NumPy different from Numeric or Numarray (I understand that implementation wise it is different). In the past I have donated to several open source projects (and individual developers) whose work saved me a lot of time, I don't mind the cost of it. But I just can't see doing the same in a "pay it forward" fashion. I wish the author all the best, with the remark that in this day and age with the pervasive need for large scale management/analysis he would/could make a lot more money by fostering relationships with research groups (private/university) and selling his scientific computing (support) expertise rather then a pdf file. That's all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list