(2009-03-08) NS-RFC: The RFC Cookbook on-line
brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> Christine, your memory is failing... we were indeed asked, in fact it was a
> topic of great contention... in the end the vast majority agreed that the
> rfc cookbook would not be made available in any other form, mainly because
> any electronic version at that time would be too easy to reproduce.
>
> Today CDs can be produced that canot be copied or transfered. I have no
> aversion to a 2nd edition in CD format (at a typical CD price - say US$15.)
> if it cannot be copied... I'd like to have a Registered copy of the rfc
> cookbook as a searchable CD, but only if it was not capable of being copied
> in part or in whole nor in any way transferable.
>
> I am 200% positive that those who want to see the rfc cookbook made public
> are the cheap *******s who never would have paid for it at its inception had
> they the opportunity. The only way they can prove otherwise to me is if
> they produce their own stinkin' cookbook and then lets see how quick they'd
> be to make it available for free. Of course this will never be, very few of
> today's rfc'ers are capable of producing a cookbook... in fact those
> clammoring the loudest for making the original free can't cook a lick. They
> can call theirs The Hijacked Recipe Cookbook. LOL
>
My memory fails me, but I remember a discussion about the cookbook being
put on a CD, but some people disregarded it because they wanted to give
paper copies to Mom or to Grandma. Personally, I like the idea of a
searchable CD.
Becca
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