From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 5629
Date: 2005-08-31
>I've seen nothing to suggest that Adobe is interested in exotics.
> Jonathon Blake wrote:
>
> > a) I doubt that Adobe/O'Reilly could recoup the cost of the offer
> > within five years. [O'Reilly has a policy of flipping all books to a
> > CC 2.0 Licence five years after publication.]
> >
> > b) I don't know what sort of royalty arrangement Peter has, but I
> > expect that financially, it is much better than any royalty
> > arrangement that involves the CC 2.0 Licence.
> >
> I don't know about the CC policy - never heard that - where are all the
> old books? There are some I would download in a minute! Hmm, just looked
> at the web site : http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
>
> Looks like it is always the author's choice, and then only for already
> out of print books.
>
> But I think you missed my bigger points:
>
> 1 - Adobe would provide the majority of funding, probably for the same
> reasons and from a similar budget that Ken Lunde and his team have been
> paid from for about 10 years or more. Their justification is that that
> it is R and D that turns into products and features.