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

[William F. Maddock]

I'm fairly certain that there are plenty of books for sale that only
serve as manuals or how-to's for open source projects. I think it's
great that the manual is finished, and soon to be available for sale
(I've already ordered my copy). There is, however, one thing that I'd
like to correct, perhaps get clarification on (quoting Greg's original
announcement):

"Profits from the sale of the book will go to the Scribus project as our
way of giving back to this project we love so much, so it's also a way
for users who appreciate Scribus to not only buy the best source of
answers to the many questions they have, but also in turn keep this
project healthy and moving forward."

Perhaps I've misread, but I took this to mean that ALL profits would be
going to the Scribus project. Either way, let's not sell Christoph and
Greg short. They have led a monumental project to completion and,
apparently, taken nothing for themselves. Much thanks is quite
appropriate.

On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 13:03 -0500, Allen McBride wrote:
> 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.

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