Colin Guthrie wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I just found some jerk on StumbleUpon with titles like: >> PHP Essentials (c)2007 (Neil Smyth) >> PHP Cookbook (David Sklar/Adam Trachtenberg) >> PHP 5 Power Programming (c)2005 (Andi Gutmans/Stig Bakken/Derick Rethans ) >> A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0 (c)2000 (W. Jason Gilmore) >> >> And lots of others. They are downloadable PDFs. If the authors want >> the address of the site, email me. The pirates can go directly to >> Hell. > > Dude, I'd be thoroughly surprised if 99% of the people on this list > could not find a copy of the above titles on the web should they be > suitably motivated. > > Don't be so naive as to think they just don't exist. It's all about > personal integrity - people who work with Free and Open Source systems > like PHP should feel pretty bad if they abuse someone else's hard work > by not buying the book. should they? is the world so black and white? none of the authors mentioned will be going hungry any time soon ... in fact if 1,000,000 coders stole these books and subsequently started doing php for a living then each of the authors would probably benefit from the increase in the 'php economy'. not to mention the trees, they don't feel bad when you 'abuse someone's hard work' by stealing a pdf. and if I gave my great, great grand children the choice, would they have me abuse IP/copyright or natural resources? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
