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EBooks?
Posted by metamorphic [send private reply] at February 21, 2002, 12:56:39 PM
Do you all think it would be a good idea to have variuos EBooks on the site that users (maybe only registered users) can download? I know psion once told me that TPU isnt about distributing resources from other places on the net, however, EBooks can be really useful for people. They save you looking for the book, and there especially good for students as they would be here for free. I have quite a number of EBooks and im always downloading more off Kazaa.
Some of the main Ebooks I have are: The C Programming Language by Ritchie & kernighan Object-oriented Programming With ANSI C The C++ Programming Language 3rd Edition by Bajorn stroustrap ANSI-ISO C++ Professional Programmer's Handbook (its a good C++ reference) Intermediate C++ programming (for after the basics) Linux C++ Programming OpenGL Reference Manual Using OpenGL in Visual C++ Teach Yourself DirectX 7 in 24 Hours Teach yourself javascript in 14 days Teach Yourself Perl 5 Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Teach Yourself SQL in 21 Days Visual Basic 6 Black Book Teach Yourself Visual C++ 6 in 21 days Visual C++ For Dummies Quick Reference Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl 5 in a Week Teach Yourself Shell Programming in 24 Hours Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual C++ 6.0 in 21 Days Linux Programming Unleased Linux Network Administration (O'Reily Press) Java Unleased Java Programming Basics CGI Programming on the WWW (O'Reily Press) C++ Unleased C# Language Reference (Microsoft Press) Mastering Delphi 6 Thinking in C++ Volume 1 & 2 Thinking in Java Plus quite a few others. Im sure that in that list there is and EBook that someone would want! Marc
Posted by taubz [send private reply] at February 21, 2002, 02:33:06 PM
Are these books in the public domain?
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at February 21, 2002, 02:55:30 PM
Got some of those Ebooks too. Mostly general math. I haven't seen anything in it that alows it's distribution. Better keep a good eye on this, many could be Ebookz instead of Ebooks.
RedX
Posted by metamorphic [send private reply] at February 21, 2002, 03:37:38 PM
>> Are these books in the public domain?
There on file sharing programs, which makes them public. Although like RedX said, just becasue its public doesnt make it legal. Some of the EBooks dont have the "no part of this book may be blah blah blah" bit. Some could be used at least then
Posted by JG16 [send private reply] at February 21, 2002, 03:58:39 PM
what sharing proggy use?
Posted by taubz [send private reply] at February 21, 2002, 04:08:34 PM
Though I've corrected metamorphic on IRC, for general reference: Just because something happens to be publicly available somewhere on the Internet, it doesn't mean it's "public domain" (something which no one holds a copyright on) and freely distributable. Napster et. al. do not make copying things legal just because they happen to be accessible.
- taubz
Posted by JG16 [send private reply] at February 22, 2002, 04:29:57 PM
Protect you back
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at February 22, 2002, 06:18:18 PM
As far as I know, if we were to distribute those books we could get into major trouble. I know for sure that we can't distribute "The C Programming Language", and I'm pretty sure the rest are copyright. I don't think we want to open ourselves up to being shut down because of a misguided service.
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