Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Free computer books Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:17:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Z+UYWCPnTu4kxHsUACWmFQ"; logging-data="817"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18q/hOB/SOBtt2Q0l9TtDsjqX3ZL+TkRmQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111004 Icedove/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:XBf2h/BCdru6ETpwOULz8MHSr5c= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:1225 On 10/10/2011 02:37 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 10/06/2011 02:37 AM, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:26:14 -0700, markspace<-@.> wrote, quoted or >> indirectly quoted someone who said : >> >> I think the way we are headed is "open source" text books and CAI that >> can be used in the third world electronically without royalty. It >> probably more a matter of cataloging it and preparing it in a number >> of standard formats. > > When I read this post I thought of Wikibooks. As this thread progresses > I'm inclined to think that an wiki collaboration on a textbook would be > hard to achieve. >>