[Lazarus] English lazarus book available.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 14:49:26 +0200
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be schrieb:
> 
> >> Just some of the eBook advantages:
> [...]
> 
> > The main argument contra - as I recall it - was that PDFs can be illegally
> > copied, and this was used to wipe away all the possible advantages.
> 
> That's true only for people that make their living from writing and 
> selling books. When a program/project is available for free, why 
> shouldn't the documentation come for free as well? There is no real need 
> that the book writers should earn money, while the coders should not.

The writers don't earn much money. Writing a book is a lot of work and
you have to sell a lot of books, before it pays out.
OTOH having a book helps the project and therefore the coders.

 
> In practice I agree that it can be hard work, to write a book about 
> mostly undocumented code like FPC and Lazarus, and even I've been 
> thinking about providing *and* selling according documentation myself. 
> But I would have done that by myself, in digital form, without an 
> professional publisher who wouldn't work for free...


Mattias