and no one can stop anyone who wants to write one, that is the sadest
part. I would sit down and write it if I didn't have so much to
do.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Podz</b> <<a href="mailto:podz@tamba2.org.uk">podz@tamba2.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Late last year - before 1.5 - there was a post to the forums asking<br>about whether a book would be warranted. I said No (as did others) and<br>then promptly got very angry. The reasons why don't matter now. But what<br>
it clearly illustrated was that someone wanted to take information<br>freely given by others, chop it about a bit and then sell it to a<br>publisher. They make a nice profit for a few weeks work, and we forever<br>pick up the pieces when people come to the forums saying "Well the book
<br>said....."<br>That scenario would seriously annoy me on a number of levels.<br>And it WILL happen.<br><br>Unless we get in first.<br>WordPress is ours. GPL all you want, but we have laboured on the project<br>in many different ways over a long period of time. If there is to be a
<br>book then that must come from our hands, not those of someone out to<br>make a quick buck.<br><br>We can be honest about the shelflife of the book, we can have<br>"Official!" all over it, we can improve it version by version, we will
<br>have a tangible product of our work and that of others, we could all<br>even call ourselves "Authors" :) - it's it the logical extension of all<br>the work we have done so far isn't it ?<br>It will never be bang up to date but unless the coders take a few years
<br>off it never can be.<br>And if we don't start now, when do we ? When can we possibly be ready ?<br>(WordPress - the book. The /ideal/ stocking filler !)<br><br>I can't speak for Carthik but I doubt very much that given his time and
<br>involvement in WordPress that he would say No.<br><br>I can see there is a "rights" issue somewhere, but in some ways we<br>already ride roughshod over that. If I post a solution to the forums and<br>someone copies that to Codex, whose is it ? Submissions to the forum are
<br>not GPL. I wouldn't like to even guess where they would fall.<br>My feeling is that if WE publish a book and are open about costs and<br>profits then as others see that there is no nest-feathering going on,<br>that it really is given back to the project then if anything that would
<br>have a positive effect.<br><br>But we'll know nothing until it's published.<br><br>P.<br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-docs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:wp-docs@lists.automattic.com">wp-docs@lists.automattic.com
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