On 2015-02-09, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 11:12 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 2/9/2015 11:06 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> > The third item was a 16.1 MB PDF of 1,344 pages. A quick scan of the PDF >> > shows every page appears to be readable. 11 pages devoted to BASH. >> > Information on other interesting topics too. >> >> on a site hosted in Russia which appears to be FULL of copyright violations. > > Probably not really a software pirate but an individual (and a keen > cyclist) storing some old-ish PDFs on his own web site. The PDF *itself* is still pirated. It has nothing whatsoever to do with "software" piracy. > So there is little to fear from the web site of a Russian cyclist who > likes Linux. I don't even fully trust docs written by any third party until I can cross-check it against official documentation. So I definitely do not think it's okay to trust pirated documentation from a Russian site I will never be able to know anything about. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us