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Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:34:59 GMT
Original-From: 
Jonathan Knudsen <jonathan@oreilly&stopspammers&.com>
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At 04:31 PM 2/9/99 +0800, bwiren@csc.com wrote:
[...]
What about putting some of the software on a CD stuck inside the back cover
of the book ?

Not sure on all the licencing / legal / copyright issues but I feel it
would be an asset.

My general feeling is that most of the software is evolving
so fast that anything we put on a CD would be out of
date by the time the book was printed. I am planning to
make the book chock full of URLs, however. Some of these
are bound to become out of date but overall I think it
will be a good asset.

I guess you will need to put a dead line on it otherwise it will grow to be
the size of "War and Peace" with all the suggestions and ideas that will be
sent in....

Yes, I've gotten a lot of great suggestions. This really
is a fantastic community.

Jonathan

--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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  Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
 
(...) I dunno if it's worth the cost, but you could do an HTML page with all those URLs, organised by chapter, and smack that on a CD. Then you can legitimately say "comes with CD", and there are still people who'll buy anything with a CD in it over (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: O'Reilly Mindstorms book [was RE: Memory]
 
I think this is an excellent idea ......no objections here to discussing on this list .... What about putting some of the software on a CD stuck inside the back cover of the book ? Not sure on all the licencing / legal / copyright issues but I feel (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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