From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen" <mikkel@dvide.com>
Cc: Jason Hickey <jyh@cs.caltech.edu>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr,
Heather Bergman <hbergman@cambridge.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tim Rentsch & The Abscissa Book
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:52:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab7yw13y.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <caee5ad80903061518l392c1f6eg72c706ad145c80aa@mail.gmail.com> ("Mikkel =?utf-8?Q?Fahn=C3=B8e_J=C3=B8rgensen=22's?= message of "Sat\, 7 Mar 2009 00\:18\:45 +0100")
Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <mikkel@dvide.com> writes:
> 2009/3/6 Jason Hickey <jyh@cs.caltech.edu>:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> I have recently reviewed a book titled "The Objective Caml Programming
>> Language," published under the name Tim Rentsch by Abscissa Press,
>> ISBN 978-0-9815992-0-5. The majority of the text printed in this book
>> was written by me, and it is published without my permission. To be
>> specific, Mr. Rentsch wrote chapters 14, 15, 17, and the Appendix
>> (totaling 1/3 of the text of this book); the rest is my writing.
>>
>
> I don't have anything polite to say other than to give Jason my full
> support and recommend anyone to not buy that book.
>
> No matter how much editing takes place, this cannot count as original
> work. Most people in software know this.
The question is why fighting over a book that looks dull and boring,
than 10 people will maybe buy, and that can be downloaded anyway
as a pdf on the web ?
Ok, I am (half) joking, just to relax, there are too much
tension on this mailing list :) I propose a fight between the
two gentlemen: the one who win the next ICFP contest can publish
the book.
>
> Regards,
> Mikkel
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-07 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-06 21:14 Jason Hickey
2009-03-06 23:18 ` [Caml-list] " Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen
2009-03-07 1:52 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2009-03-07 1:01 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-08 8:15 ` Tim Rentsch
2009-03-08 13:52 ` [Caml-list] " Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2009-03-08 14:46 ` Joshua D. Guttman
2009-03-09 13:57 ` Mike Lin
2009-03-09 14:23 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-03-09 14:36 ` Mike Lin
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