[rms@gnu.org: [gnome-list-request@gnome.org: Re: Writing free documentation/GNOME books]]

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:03:07 -0600 (MDT)
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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
Subject: [gnome-list-request@gnome.org: Re: Writing free documentation/GNOME books]
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Would you please send my message through to the list?

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       I recently talked to two very dear friends of mine who are working
    on two books about GNOME programming.  With two publishing companies.
    One company I will call A and the other I will call B. 

       Both A and B are offering the authors of the books 1 dollar per
    book sold plus some money in advance which varies for books that are
    sold to the end user for something in the range of 25-40 dollars.

       Companies A and B have estimated selling something between 10k and
    20k books.  Company A has shown some interested in exploring making
    the source open-source, but the last time I talked to them, they were
    no longer going to make the GNOME book free.  

The FSF would gladly pay someone $20k for the rights to a well-written
and comprehensive GNOME programming manual.  We would then publish as
free documentation--free as in freedom, of course.  We would sell
copies in bookstores, just as these companies do, just we do for our
existing manuals.

We also pay people to write manuals; we are paying two people now for
this, and we have the money to pay another--provided we find someone
with a proven ability to do the job, of course.
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