1. Rob is going to be a Benevolent Dictator for Life!
Rob, I really hope this all works out and you can make a decent living.
You gonna sign up book deals with Sybex/OReilly?
Does your Euphoria copyright prevent others from jumping the gun on you?
2. Re: Rob is going to be a Benevolent Dictator for Life!
There really aren't enough users to justify writing a book about Euphoria.
Jeremy
3. Re: Rob is going to be a Benevolent Dictator for Life!
Jeremy Peterson wrote:
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> There really aren't enough users to justify writing a book about Euphoria.
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> Jeremy
Yet
Chris
4. Re: Rob is going to be a Benevolent Dictator for Life!
ChrisBurch2 wrote:
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> Jeremy Peterson wrote:
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> > There really aren't enough users to justify writing a book about Euphoria.
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> > Jeremy
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> Yet
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> Chris
isn't this a bit of a chicken and egg situation? do more users generate a book
or
does a book generate more users?
If you're taking the traditional publishing route it can be an expensive gamble,
but
these days there are self-publishing companies that print 'on demand'. Check out
www.lulu.com.
5. Re: Rob is going to be a Benevolent Dictator for Life!
True, there is probably not enough users to justify a book, yet.
If Euphoria becomes mainstream due to the open source, then great.
I just wanted to jog Rob's thoughts that he should not allow
someone else to profit on his hard work, and risk.
BTW, is does Larry Wall making a living from Perl...? If so, how?
6. Re: Rob is going to be a Benevolent Dictator for Life!
- Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz>
Sep 20, 2006
Alan Oxley wrote:
> BTW, is does Larry Wall making a living from Perl...? If so, how?
I think he has published about 7 books on Perl and is or was a salaried employee
of O'Reilly. Money does not seem to be his primary motivation.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
"Wall continues to oversee further development of Perl and serves as the
Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project. His role in Perl is best
conveyed by the so-called 2 Rules, taken from the official Perl documentation:
Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave. This means he
has final veto power on the core functionality.
Larry is allowed to change his mind about any matter at a later date, regardless
of whether he previously invoked Rule 1.
Got that? Larry is always right, even when he was wrong."
And another from: http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Wall/index.shtml
"LW: Ten years ago or so, we had Richard Stallman's GPL, and Perl was licensed
under that. And I discovered that that worked fine for the hacker community, for
the geeks, but it prevented Perl from being used in a commercial environment. So
I wrote my own license. But I didn't want to offend the free software, the GPL
people.
So, rather than switching licenses, I said "Well, let's have both licenses and
you may distribute Perl under either of them at the same time." And that way, the
computer crowd, they had their insurance that their rights would not be taken
away, and the companies had some insurances that their rights would not be taken
away, and everyone was happy. That's sort of cultural hack that I'm talking
about. "
Gary
