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Misunderstanding of embedded system designers
Misunderstanding of embedded system designers
Posted Jan 17, 2006 18:33 UTC (Tue) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)In reply to: Misunderstanding of embedded system designers by karim
Parent article: GPLv3: a first look
karim said:... those producing copyrighted material (i.e. the artists) have very little understanding of the technology
I'm one of those producers, and I and my (book) publisher found that free, non-DRM'd electronic distribution of our work drove book sales.
Baen has now followed O'Reilly in this, shipping completeley unrestricted PDFs of their back catalog with recent publications...
Some artists in the graphic and performing arts have seen this, though their publishers haven't
--dave
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Misunderstanding of embedded system designers
Posted Jan 18, 2006 14:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Baen has been doing this for a long time: I think longer than ORA. I have a book I bought in 2001 with a CD-full of other books at the back, in HTML and RTF...