From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: About free software and open source projects.. Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 16:46:49 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: IzvqdhUtDGKIMCldyDtZ+w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54046 Date: 2018-08-04T16:46:49+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-08-04 15:35, Dan'l Miller wrote: > Amine, you should publish these insightful thoughts in a book for sale instead of for free on comp.lang.ada and other cross-posted newsgroups. Why give these valuable keys to the kingdom of the universe away for free? Don't let other people steal your work by merely giving it away for free. In a published book, you have clear legal standing for copyright, but in the form of postings to newsgroups, not so much legal standing to your (now forfeited) rights to control copying. (:-)) Careful, he might keep on posting unless we buy a copy of the book. Just like some music players in restaurants do ... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de