Re: My Linux HA book is done! (yeah :-)

[Neil Cherry <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19 Aug 2006 18:43:18 -0700, jim.griffin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Since this book is about Linux home automation, shouldn't it be open
> source?

Not necessarily, I understand your question and another way to word it is:

Why isn't the book released under the Creative Commons license?

I don't have a good answer for you. All I know is that Wiley came to
me asking if I would write about Linux and Home Automation. It's like
a lot of the magazines do (though I would have made a lot more writing
magazine articles than writing the book).

Writing the book will not limit my support for Linux or Home
Automation and I'm not going to start charging for my normal support.
BTW, you're not paying for the software, that's Open Source (except
Twonky) and I have the links to everything. Even my code I wrote in
the book is Open Source. I argued that point early on, my contract
stipulated that any software I wrote for the book was the propery of
Wiley. So I didn't write any software for the book. :-) I just include
my software for my home automation.

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