[CentOS] Another Fedora decision

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Tue, February 10, 2015 6:58 pm, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 16:39 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 2/10/2015 3:28 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>> > 3. The Russian's web site is that of a devote cyclist.
>>
>> oh, well, I'm glad that makes the copyright violation of stealing an
>> authors work OK in your book.
>
> Another bored expert desperate for a modicum of excitement ?
>
> You have absolutely no prima facie evidence to support your assertion.
>
> I refer you to my posting dated Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:10:35 +0000 which
> includes, inter alia:-
>
> "Keith neither of us know whether or not the Russian man obtained his
> PDF copy of the book lawfully.  In my book-publishing opinion, the PDF
> appears to have originated from the book's publisher, so the original
> source must have been *the* official source. Hence the book, in the PDF
> version, must have been written by the official authors.
>
> "The existence of an alleged unpaid-for copy on a foreign web site can
> not, in any sense whatsoever, denigrate, diminish nor deprecate the
> official authors distinguished achievement.
>
> "There are poor people all around the world who enjoy computers
> including Linux and whom would benefit from learning more about Linux.
> Some who can read English sufficiently proficiently to benefit from the
> book's text, may be too poor to afford the, to them in their country,
> "exorbitant" Western price for an "official" copy.  Some publishers
> recognise this reality and sell in third-world countries at a small
> fraction of the "Western" price. In those circumstances selling PDFs for
> an extremely low price may be the source of this particular PDF
> especially as hardbacks and paperbacks could never economically be sold
> as low as a very low cost "official" PDF copy."
>
> FACT: Valeri's recommendation is, in my opinion, a useful source of
> basic knowledge benefiting Centos users regardless whether that book in
> printed on paper or is a virtual or an electronic "book" (i.e. PDF).

Just to make it clear: I recommended the book itself without pointing to
any source of it, and when pirate copy was mentioned by somebody else, I
had to say I do not recommend that source and would recommend to buy the
book on amazon.

The guy who put document copyrighted to somebody else is either stupid or
ignorant (and I don't care if he is Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese, or USA
person, or...). Ignorance in this place is akin full disregard of another
person's hard work and rights (Book brilliant authors' and copyright
holders'). I doubt we can educate that Russian guy. Unless someone who
feels good towards him can find way to contact him and explain
everything... Not I definitely ;-)

Valeri

>
> ANOTHER FACT: Linux Programmer's Reference, Petersen, Osborne
> McGraw-Hill 1998 - ISBN 0-07-882587-3, which I obtained on 27 October
> 2000, is also a good good source of useful information. I've started
> re-reading the 71 pages on BASH.  I never knew the first character on
> the first line could be a space.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Paul.
> England, EU.      Je suis Charlie.
>
>
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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University of Chicago
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