Wow, I missed this thread when it came out and I am answering late, but what a great post! And also what a great thread, by the way. Thank you stevieb for initiating this discussion, and also many thanks to the others monks who contributed.

I've always been a firm believer that knowledge should be freely shared and available

I could not agree more.

I wasn't the only one who loved learning from others while wanting to give out everything I was experienced/knowledgeable with.

No, you're definitely not the only one, far from that.

And I definitely count myself along those other ones sharing the same values. This is the reason, for example, why I wanted that my Perl 6 book be freely available on the Internet, and, moreover, open source with a very open Creative Commons license enabling people to copy it, modify it, and publish the modified version, if they want, despite the fact that it was being commercially published by O'Reilly.

Thank you, stevieb, for these posts.

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