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Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

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Re: Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

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Considering _why's infocide several years ago and the fact that this book has been available online for free, it seems like somebody is simply trying to make money off of his free book. I've reported it to Amazon as fraudulent, and I urge anybody reading this to do the same!

If this is _why then there's no need for that and we should, in fact, be supportive of someone who gave to much to the community and buy the book.

The odds that's actually _why are pretty low.

Re: Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

#12

Considering _why's infocide several years ago and the fact that this book has been available online for free, it seems like somebody is simply trying to make money off of his free book. I've reported it to Amazon as fraudulent, and I urge anybody reading this to do the same!

Looks like the book is under a free license: CC-BY-SA. Printing it and selling it is allowed.

Re: Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

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post #12

Considering _why's infocide several years ago and the fact that this book has been available online for free, it seems like somebody is simply trying to make money off of his free book. I've reported it to Amazon as fraudulent, and I urge anybody reading this to do the same!

Looks like the book is under a free license: CC-BY-SA. Printing it and selling it is allowed.

True, except for the fact that the author is claiming to be him. Indeed, it's a pseudonym, so arguably up for grabs, but a misrepresentation even so.

Re: Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the book is under a free license: CC-BY-SA. Printing it and selling it is allowed.

True, except for the fact that the author is claiming to be him. Indeed, it's a pseudonym, so arguably up for grabs, but a misrepresentation even so.

Well, isn't the author _why? I don't think publishers typically identify themselves as "authors" on Amazon.

I'm reminded of that time when the UK police were cracking down on people selling Mozilla CDs:

http://slashdot.org/story/06/02/23/1330220/uk-government-con...

Re: Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

#16
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the book is under a free license: CC-BY-SA. Printing it and selling it is allowed.

True, except for the fact that the author is claiming to be him. Indeed, it's a pseudonym, so arguably up for grabs, but a misrepresentation even so.

The author is _why, isn't he? It would be misrepresentation to claim otherwise. The person making money here is the person who submitted to Createspace, who is effectively the publisher (along with Createspace as well)
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