From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D81BBC4 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:52:57 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApUBAIdisUmArgWokWdsb2JhbACMcIgfAQEBAQkLCgcRBL9KB4N+Bg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,317,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="25199741" Received: from expredir7.cites.uiuc.edu ([128.174.5.168]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 07 Mar 2009 02:52:56 +0100 Received: from axyr (aryx.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.236.106]) by expredir7.cites.uiuc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n271qoPi003593; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:52:50 -0600 (CST) To: Mikkel =?utf-8?Q?Fahn=C3=B8e_J=C3=B8rgensen?= Cc: Jason Hickey , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, Heather Bergman Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tim Rentsch & The Abscissa Book References: From: Yoann Padioleau Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:52:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: ("Mikkel =?utf-8?Q?Fahn=C3=B8e_J=C3=B8rgensen=22's?= message of "Sat\, 7 Mar 2009 00\:18\:45 +0100") Message-ID: <87ab7yw13y.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam: no; 0.00; mikkel:01 rgensen:01 mikkel:01 icfp:01 beginner's:01 ocaml:01 bug:01 2009:98 978:98 beginners:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 writes:01 bin:01 Mikkel Fahn=C3=B8e J=C3=B8rgensen writes: > 2009/3/6 Jason Hickey : >> 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 ?=20 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs