Re: Arabic Book Based on Red Hat 9 By Faisal Yousuf

[Osama ALASSIRY <osama at alassiry dot com>]

This is faisal's book, i read a little of it (I had to print it...) and
it seems to be a good book...

He has the right to license it any way he wants... no need to be
aggressive about it...

it's a great effort, and he has the right to do whatever he wants. he
was kind enough to allow redistribution in electronic form.

Comments to faisal:
* The font size is too small...
* Margins are too small...

I know, this could become a 500 page book with bigger fonts and margins.

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 00:46, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
> Salam,
> I believe you got it wrong, Elzubeir.
> His attitude is not wrong. There are many people who do it already.
> He is *not* from this community.
> Open source is not Linux only. and Linux based projects are not automatically
> open source.
> 
> As for M. Nabil's answer. He should look a little at the page he is
> referencing.
> 2. Source Code
>  should exist.
> 3. Derived works
>  modifications and derived works should be allowed.
> And I am not sure that any open source license banning MS Word is not violating
> 10. License must be technology neutral.
> 
> For the record, I have not read the book (except the first page and skimming
> for the license).
> 
> I believe we have another offer now for a book. We will take that instead.
> 
>  --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at
> 05:47:05PM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > > This is being forwarded for completeness in case anyone else was
> > > curious and to close-out this thread.
> > > 
> > > > From: Faisal Yousuf <faisaldsc at yahoo dot com>
> > 
> > > > The license remains the same.
> > > >  
> > > > I want to make money from this book. So far, I've nothing to show for my
> > > > effort.
> > > >  
> > > > I've made the book available for download so that people can read it, and
> > > > also allowed the redistribution of it in electronic form.
> > > >  
> > > > If you don't like the license, DO NOT USE THE BOOK. It's quite simple.
> > > >  
> > > > Don't bother me any more.
> > > >  
> > 
> > 
> > That's some great attitude. Sorry to bother you again (by Cc'ing you
> > here).. but I never read your book, never want to read your book and
> > think your attitude is one of the worst I have seen in this community.
> > 
> > And for the record, I think the license you are adopting is appropriate
> > but most certainly don't appreciate your attitude.
> > 
> > Regards
> > -- 
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> Muhammad Alkarouri
> MSc. Telecommunication and Information Systems
> RHCE
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