O'Reilly Pushing Founder's Copyright System 134
The letter included a handy FAQ about author options (allow assignment to Creative Commons, stick with the usual maximum copyright deal, or have three months to try to find another publisher when the book goes out-of-print and allow assignment to CC if you don't). The letter also notes that different editions of books count as different works, so your latest edition can still be selling commercially and earlier editions can be released as open books.
(For my out-of-print ORA book, I'm going to allow them to assign the rights to CC and make it freely available. It's great to see a publisher thinking about copyright this way, but it's no more than I'd expect from the good folks at ORA.)"
Re:Software (Score:5, Funny)
Understand this: No corporation has ever made enough money out of something. The only way that would happen would be if that corporation was the only corporation in the whole world, and made ALL the money. Then things would be right, and the world would be a happy place.
Daniel
I think we're just waiting (Score:5, Funny)
What's that?
Oh.
Re:If O'Reilly's so committed to Open Source, (Score:2, Funny)
What!? No TROFF?
Was nice to see UNIX Text Processing available as a download.
Re:It's things like this (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly! Even though they lose money on each unit, they will make it up in volume!
Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
Why is everyone looking at me like that?