With a click of the
button, the program introduced lines linking each
sentence in the parent to its conceptual offshoot in
the derivative. An e-book biography of Richard M.
Stallman didn't have to be Udanax-enabled, but given
such technological possibilities, why not give users a
chance to play around?Anybody willing to "port" this book over to Udanax, the
free software version of Xanadu, will receive
enthusiastic support from me. To find out more about
this intriguing technology, visit
http://www.udanax.com/.
When Laurie Petrycki, my editor at O'Reilly, gave me a
choice between the OPL or the GFDL, I indulged the
fantasy once again. By September of 2001, the month I
signed the contract, e-books had become almost a dead
topic. Many publishing houses, Tracy's included, were
shutting down their e-book imprints for lack of
interest. I had to wonder. If these companies had
treated e-books not as a form of publication but as a
form of community building, would those imprints have survived?
After I signed the contract, I notified Stallman that
the book project was back on.
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