Ubuntu book

Sivan Green sivang.ulists at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 06:51:10 UTC 2004


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:57:06 +0100, sparkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
> John Hornbeck wrote:
> > Ok, I am proposing this to the group.  I am interested in writing a book
> > about Ubuntu.
> 
> I got asked if I wanted to write an ubuntu book last week by a company
> that I don't trust.  The directors all belonged to another publisher
> that went bust a couple of years ago leaving many authors without cash :-(
> 
> So I don't want to write it for them ;-)
> 
> I think the debian book could be ubuntuised (this was my original
> suggestion to Ben on the sounders list) it's released under a free
> licence and could be authored by the group as a whole.

I agree with you very much. Moreover, doing so that way we could
contribute back to our ROCK, debian - something I wish to see in all
our documentation efforts.
This book should just as well  released under a license that would
allow Debian to freely use our works and nurture back the community.

Keep those ideas coming, I like them! ;)


Sivan




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