Considering _why's infocide several years ago and the fact that this book has be...

jordigh · on May 25, 2015

Looks like the book is under a free license: CC-BY-SA. Printing it and selling it is allowed.

bdcravens · on May 25, 2015

True, except for the fact that the author is claiming to be him. Indeed, it's a pseudonym, so arguably up for grabs, but a misrepresentation even so.

jordigh · on May 25, 2015

Well, isn't the author _why? I don't think publishers typically identify themselves as "authors" on Amazon.

I'm reminded of that time when the UK police were cracking down on people selling Mozilla CDs:

http://slashdot.org/story/06/02/23/1330220/uk-government-con...

bdonlan · on May 25, 2015

The author is _why, isn't he? It would be misrepresentation to claim otherwise. The person making money here is the person who submitted to Createspace, who is effectively the publisher (along with Createspace as well)

jseifer · on May 25, 2015

If this is _why then there's no need for that and we should, in fact, be supportive of someone who gave to much to the community and buy the book.

hartator · on May 25, 2015

The odds that's actually _why are pretty low.