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Book:   Using Samba
Subject:   Using Samba, 2nd Edition Review
Date:   2003-03-09 19:36:54
From:   Tim O'Reilly
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

I wanted to reply to the comments of the preceding anonymous poster, who asked why we would publish a printed copy of documentation that is available for free online as the official documentation of the Samba project. Clearly the poster hasn't done his homework. We hired and paid people to write the book, and donated it to the Samba project as its official documentation. We had the cooperation of the core team to be sure, but without the efforts and funding of O'Reilly (including a substantial amount of time from one of our staff writers), this book wouldn't exist.


Even without that fact, though, there are many good reasons for printing and selling nicely bound copies of books that are available online.


In any event, anonymous, I think you owe us an apology.


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