Re: New Essay: "Why Closed Books are So 19th Century"

"Amit Aronovitch" <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:39:58 +0300
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Did not read the whole thing, but what are your opinions regarding
"temporarily closed" books, like the "World Price" method used by
Travis Oliphant for the numpy book?

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif-ik1l9ssToec+JF/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> See:
>
> http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/closed-books-are-so-19th-century/
>
> for a new essay I've written that tries to convince authors to make everything
> they write publically available online (without registration, payment, etc.).
>
> I mention Perl and Ruby there specifically.
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>