[FM Discuss] FSF Sprint

[adam hyde]

hey

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:05 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
> adam hyde wrote:
> > I was thinking the initial sprint could be the authoritative
> > 'Introduction to the Command Line'...this way we can really put to use
> > the gathering of unix geeks that will be there. 
> 
> The best book I've seen on this topic, and using *nix in general, is
> "Think Unix" - http://www.tux.org/~lasser/think-unix/ - unfortunatly it
> is (a) non-free and (b) hasn't had a new printing since 2001.
> 
> Have there been any instances yet of successfully getting authors to
> free material that's probably no longer making much money for them, for
> the purposes of enabling continuing updates?
> 

we havent tried this yet. the sad situation of non-free texts about free
software means that a lot of texts die on the vine like this :(

do you know Jon Lasser? Perhaps if FM and the FSF made an approach to
him he might be interested? 

adam

> IMHO it would be a great base to expand from; but even if not, I
> encourage people to take a look at it (at their local public libraries,
> of course ;-) for ideas regarding how to present the command line and
> *nix in general in terms of history, concepts and memes instead of "do X
> to get Y result".
> 
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