Re: reading material for linuxers

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

Diwakar Ranganathan rearranged electrons thusly:

> today i read Cyberpunk by Bethke for the first time. it was good. read
> Johnny Mnemonic by Gibson. it was very interesting too. wouldnt it be a
> good idea if linux companies included selected sci-fi and other books in
> their CD-ROMs? like Neuromancer by Gibson, Being Digital, The Hacker

Some of these are free to copy, open and such.  I doubt if the publishers of
(say) Gibson's books would want to allow that - Berne Convention, copyrights
and all.

> Crackdown by Bruce Sterling, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, a Bruce
> Schneier book the name of which escapes me, and even Cybergypsies by
> Indra Sinha, etc?
 
Some of Terry Pratchett's books would come in really handy if this takes off :)

Add to this "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll (and perhaps Takedown by
Tsutomu Shinomura).  Then dont forget the classic open source ideas from
Cathedral and the Bazaar ...

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