Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:50:52 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: klowd9 - <klowd92@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel documentation and specification Message-ID: <86d5tpgnk3.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <BAY10-F26231E2731D0B73B2E9E00BF400@phx.gbl> References: <BAY10-F26231E2731D0B73B2E9E00BF400@phx.gbl>
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"klowd9 -" <klowd92@hotmail.com> writes: > First of all i am dead serious about learning. Apparently not. > Secondly, where i come from, $60 is alot of money. And in the spirit > of open source and free software, charging $60 for a book is > ridiculous. I want to code free software and contribute to the open > source community, must i be prepared to pay inorder to contribute? Yes. > Why > isnt a free copy of this book available online? Because Kirk needs to eat. > The author obviously > put alot of time and effort into making this excellent book, but so do > thousands of other people writing code and papers every day, published > freely on the internet, and they ask for nothing in return, besides > perhaps, some gratitude Kirk has also contributed a lot of code for free. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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