I realize you're frustrated but I think this is quite off topic for
this thread.  Stephane and Co. did a great thing for the community in
writing this book and it's lame to bring them down by ranting about
something unrelated in their thread.

Good job guys (who wrote and/or helped with the book)!

On Dec 6, 2007 10:05 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire at ofset.org> wrote:
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> A real GREAT gift for Christmas will be to see Squeak relicensed!
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> Will it be possible at least to get info about the actual situation?
>
> I don't see the point to give money to the Squeak foundation if the
> community does not get any info/update regarding the *actual* situation
> regarding the relicensing.
>
> The relicensing will just help to get more attention on Squeak/Smalltalk
> from the free software community. But may be some people does not want
> that or so ?
>
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>
>
> stephane ducasse a écrit :
>
> > Hi guys
> >
> > I'm happy to see that our book has been donwloaded 11708 times so far.
> > The french version is around 70% and apparently some people started a
> > translation in spanish. Excellent!
> > If you want to help please join, we can also offer svn hostings if
> > necessary.
> >
> > Now we are discussing giving to squeakfoundation a part of the small
> > amount of money we make for the
> > printed version (but this is not too much and so far merely covered the
> > cost of ISBN and other).
> >
> > What is important is that we would really like to make this book a
> > success to show that we do not need publishers
> > anymore and that a documentation may exist:
> >
> > So you can do three things:
> >     - buy the book :). The quality of the printed version is quite good.
> >     - write new chapters (more costly) for the next volume
> >     - translate it to new languages.
> >
> > Why this is important: because else people will not do it again and I
> > would like to have a case to show that this
> > is worht the energy (It is a dream because this took us for too much time).
> >
> > Stef
> >
> >
> > ------------------------
> > Stéphane Ducasse
> > USTL - LILF - CNRS UMR 8022 - INRIA
> > stephane.ducasse at inria.fr
> > http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
> >
> > "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
> > different? ...  especially if,  by doing something different, today
> > might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
> >
> >
> >
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