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Help Liberate the Debian Administrator's Handbook

Posted by Unknown on from the books-want-to-be-free-too dept.

First time accepted submitter buxy writes "Roland Mas and me [Raphael Hertzog] are the authors of a French Debian bestseller. We want to translate this book into English and publish it under a license compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That would be the first free and up-to-date book about Debian that can be integrated into Debian. But we need your support to make this happen. Pledge some money [toward the translation effort] and get a copy of the book once it's done! As a special bonus, you can alternatively support the project and have about 12% of the donated money given back to the Debian project."

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  1. I'd Be Glad to Plege... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A FIRST POST!

    1. Re:I'd Be Glad to Plege... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: -1, Troll

      That's what happens when mod points are just given away to anybody. That's also why the GroupThink exists.

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  2. Re:Why the big bag-o-cash needed? by Hognoxious · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe they'd prefer to have their book translated by a professional translator, so it is stylistically consistent, uses proper grammar and the content is correct.

    We wouldn't want it to be different from all the other open source documentation, would we?

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