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

On Thursday 19 June 2008, Amit Aronovitch wrote:
> 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?
>
> http://www.tramy.us
> http://www.tramy.us/FAQ.html

Doesn't seem like something I'd approve of. Books should be made available 
online soon after the publication. It is possible to give some time for the 
book to be successful commercially (a few months or so) before making it 
publically available. But the "temporarily" closed model that Travis Oliphant 
proposes (while carrying licence restrictions) is not much better than 
all-the-way closed books.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

>
> 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



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