Re: [time-nuts] Springer textbooks >10 years old now available fordownload as PDF at no cost

2015-12-30 Thread Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)
On 30 December 2015 at 14:20, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Actually it looks like the party is over. At least from here in the US, > when I go to > the original links, they will only sell me the book. No more free > downloads. > > It was fun while it lasted …. > > Bob > The party never started here

Re: [time-nuts] Springer textbooks >10 years old now available fordownload as PDF at no cost

2015-12-30 Thread Chuck Harris
Seems to me that there was a court case where Springer was ordered to follow through on its promise to release all books and academic papers to the public domain after something like 5 or 10 years. Anybody else remember anything like that? -Chuck Harris Bob Camp wrote: Hi Actually it looks li

Re: [time-nuts] Springer textbooks >10 years old now available fordownload as PDF at no cost

2015-12-30 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Actually it looks like the party is over. At least from here in the US, when I go to the original links, they will only sell me the book. No more free downloads. It was fun while it lasted …. Bob > On Dec 30, 2015, at 7:02 AM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > >>> Would other titles be found, it woul

Re: [time-nuts] Springer textbooks >10 years old now available fordownload as PDF at no cost

2015-12-30 Thread Tom Van Baak
>>Would other titles be found, it would be nice if the links would be >>shared for them too. There's a lively discussion about all these wonderful free book/PDF's at the likes of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10810271 https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/3yow1k/springer_is_offerin