The Daemon, The GNU, and the Penguin

[Bill Mullen]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:26, Tom Buskey wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Nolan, Catherine (PTG) <Catherine.Nolan at awl.com> wrote:

> > 3. How much would you pay for the printed information - although it was
> > freely available online.
> 
> It's worth paying for a paper copy sometimes.  Less so for "books you
> study", more for books stuff like this, fiction, etc.  If it's the
> type of book I'd search through, the paper copy isn't as important
> (The Perl Bookshelf).  If it's something I'm going to sit down to
> read, paper is better ("The Unix Philosphy", "A Quarter Century of
> Unix" :-)

I'm in complete agreement with Tom on this; I've been following - and
enjoying - the chapters on Groklaw as they've come out, and if a hard
copy were available for ten bucks or less, I'd add it to my bookshelf.
Others may find it to be worth a bit more, that's just the price point
that works for me in this case.

Since the subject matter is of a historical nature, this book doesn't
suffer from the instantaneous obsolescence that besets so many technical
reference materials, and it should be every bit as interesting a read
some years down the road as it is now, I'd expect. Good stuff!

-- 
Bill Mullen
RLU# 270075