I find it intellectually interesting because Alphascript seem to have managed to obey the letter of the law, jumping through all the possible legal hoops for copyleft texts while completely perverting the spirit of copyleft laws. For me the important thing here isn't that they're charging a rather high price for books made up of free texts but that in the process of making these so called books they're leaving out the traditional organisation and metadata of books (structured text, table of contents, index) and thus turning useful information into thick paper collections of spam.
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Date: 2009-06-12 02:39 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrimeHunter/Alphascript_Publishing_sells_free_articles_as_expensive_books
I find it intellectually interesting because Alphascript seem to have managed to obey the letter of the law, jumping through all the possible legal hoops for copyleft texts while completely perverting the spirit of copyleft laws. For me the important thing here isn't that they're charging a rather high price for books made up of free texts but that in the process of making these so called books they're leaving out the traditional organisation and metadata of books (structured text, table of contents, index) and thus turning useful information into thick paper collections of spam.