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From: "Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen" <mikkel@dvide.com>
To: Jason Hickey <jyh@cs.caltech.edu>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, Heather Bergman <hbergman@cambridge.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Tim Rentsch & The Abscissa Book
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:18:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <caee5ad80903061518l392c1f6eg72c706ad145c80aa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d86ee07e0903061314q4bc12593p715e617cd3c8b17e@mail.gmail.com>

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.

Regards,
Mikkel


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 23:18 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 ` Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen [this message]
2009-03-07  1:52   ` [Caml-list] " Yoann Padioleau
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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