--_6f8538f1-0409-4a7c-a4bb-a651e4d3a3ce_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would like it - I am an experienced programmer but new to Ruby Joe > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:09:22 +0900 > From: mcmohd / gmail.com > Subject: Re: A complete guide for Ruby Progammers > To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org > > Friends, > > We had put lot of effort to bring this English Ruby tutorial online but > instead of any appreciation people started blaming us. I found out "Ruby > in a Nutshell" on the net and if you see itself is a copy of standard > ruby manual. > > I found few pieces copied from this book and according to my fellow > writer he found this content interesting on the net and tried to > incorporate here. So finally I tried to remove that content. > > I've gone through 8 books while compiling this content. We are not a > research scholars who do R&D and then write a book. Like other authors, > we also took many things as reference while writing this tutorial. > > Anyway, if you did not like it then we are sorry....but I can say there > are few books who gives you clear understanding on Ruby-on-Rails, > Ruby/TK etc. if you have one then pls let me know. > > Thanks > Mohtashim > > > Eivind Eklund wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Lyle Johnson <lyle / lylejohnson.name> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Ron Fox wrote: > >> > >>> Stealing from yourself is not plagiarism. > >> > >> No, but stealing from other authors' work is. So unless the authors of > >> "Progamming Ruby" and "Ruby in a Nutshell" have approved this "reuse" of > >> their work, there's a problem. > > > > Yes, there's a problem - however, assuming this is actually edited > > into a new coherent whole (I didn't see if there were new bits, it > > looked familiar from many years back) there's also some amount of work > > done. Assuming the author is misguided rather than malicious, we > > should applaud him for that work, even if he's using sources wrongly, > > and then try to help him do things in a way that's more generally > > accepted in a copyright-focused world. > > > > Eivind. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _________________________________________________________________ Search that pays you back! Introducing Live Search cashback. http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=srchpaysyouback-_6f8538f1-0409-4a7c-a4bb-a651e4d3a3ce_--