Re: Books, the lulu.com scam - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Books, the lulu.com scam
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Msg-id bddc86150911210216v193c75c5t24c89ce8c740cebc@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Books, the lulu.com scam  (Alan Gruskoff <linux@performantsystems.com>)
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2009/11/21 Alan Gruskoff <linux@performantsystems.com>
>
> So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I am fine with.
>
> Its not. They download an .acsm file that will only work with their
> proprietary Windoze software.
>
> I am really angry with lulu.com about this.
>
> - Alan Gruskoff
>

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of them providing an electronic
book copy of the PostgreSQL documentation since it's already available
as both a PDF (A4 and US) and Windows help file (CHM) for free:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

Thom

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