[scribus] ANNOUNCEMENT: Scribus - The Official Manual is now available for sale!

[Allen McBride]

I agree with Jurgen; the manual is probably great work, and I hope it  
makes money both for the authors and for Scribus.  But since this book  
is the "official manual," isn't it an integral part of the project?   
Can Scribus really be considered FOSS if its official documentation is  
closed?  If yes, great.  If not, it doesn't bother me, and I'm hardly  
involved in the project so I'd have little cause to complain if it  
did.  But I am curious.

--Allen



> Hi Tom,
>
> as an advocate of Creative Commons, I can understand your point of  
> view.
> But never the less... you are rude.
> I don't think the book will be as profitable as to give Gregory a  
> living out of it... a lot of sweat and time has gone into this book  
> (I assume). He also made the choice to share profits with the  
> Scribus project.
>
> The negativity in you mail causes me to call your bluff: I really  
> hope that you are very envolved in the Scribus project, be it by  
> documenting, coding or translating, bug-tracking or promoting it in  
> professional areas...
> It is too easy to bark up a tree telling how much better it would  
> have been if it were creative commons - and possibly it would be...  
> But at least now we have a book. All we had up to recently, was a  
> more or less regularly updated bunch of wiki pages scattered over a  
> dozen sites. I think this book is a great improvement. And indeed,  
> some people won't be able to buy the book because of the economic  
> crisis. I empathise with these victims of the financial turmoil, but  
> it is way too easy to attack the person who actually acomplished the  
> job.
>
> Googling for "book on scribus by tom poe" didn't give me very much  
> hits...
>
> I doubted about sending this mail, as I might be feeding the  
> troll... but I think it's too important to not to.
>
> Jurgen.