[sdiy] A useful distinction

[cheater cheater]

Hi Aaron!

Personally, I have a different, perhaps not so nice distinction:

1) the author is an asshole about the product

2) the author is not an asshole about the product

Not implying anything with Tom, I still have to say that if he doesn't
communicate about his book, we don't know which one is the case. So
misjudgments will take place...

I bet Tom is a great person, but lack of most basic common-sense
marketing is hurting him, his books, his clients, and the sdiy
community (not to imply that he's doing this on purpose - it's more
like a passive unknowing innocent harm kind of thing 8)        ). I
hope we can all find a better way of dealing with things in the
future!

cheers,
D.(8

On 10/13/05, Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> Ah, the "selling" is a key word:
>
> 1) Making a copy of anything, in print or not, and _selling it_ without
> permission from and providing compensation to the author
>
> is very different than
>
> 2) Making a copy of an out-of-print book for personal use
>
> One might argue about (2), but (1) is clearly evil.
>
> - Aaron
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