Blender Manual in print

Tom Roosendaal wrote in to say " This is the moment of truth! Is the free Unix community capable of supporting a company that released free software? The Blender V1.5 manual pre-ordering started today, shipment will start end of october. The version of Blender described in the manual will be made available at our web site, free of charge." Ton has spun off a company to market Blender, and possibly make it GPL. Ed: I hope he can make money off the manual and establish that it is possible for small companies to produce free software and live off secondary sources of revenue.