He's (she's?) right; *everything* in technology has the approximate shelf life of yoghurt. Except maybe a passion for knowledge or a spirit of innovation. If you want to wait for the technology that will never change, you'll be a very old and unproductive programmer.
that is one license...but the author, working with O'Reilly, can come up with others. The book Open Sources, the Samba book, The Linux Administrator's Guide, Sam William's upcoming biography of RMS, just to name a few off the top off my head, have differing copyright/license agreements.
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I don't know the book...if teh book is outdated, then the review shouldn't be posted now, but if tehbook is stil useful, why not?
He's (she's?) right; *everything* in technology has the approximate shelf life of yoghurt. Except maybe a passion for knowledge or a spirit of innovation. If you want to wait for the technology that will never change, you'll be a very old and unproductive programmer.
that is one license...but the author, working with O'Reilly, can come up with others. The book Open Sources, the Samba book, The Linux Administrator's Guide, Sam William's upcoming biography of RMS, just to name a few off the top off my head, have differing copyright/license agreements.
I took it out of context when posting, I think. While I may not agree totally, think it's an interesting idea, not silly. Lisa