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Legal or not.... misleading
Authored by: Tyrhan on Dec 22, '02 12:54:13PM

Why not give it a way ? I for one thought, it was great to see a site put all the great hints together. But some how it seems like you are profiting off the hints, rather misleading.

I would like to see it given away in a pdf book as a gift to all the people who took time out to share some knowledge. How can you ask for support from Paypal and then publish a book !

Lets be clear, any suggestion you make could be used in my future book. I beleive the generosity of posters will decline.

boo hoo in this festive season !



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My response...
Authored by: robg on Dec 22, '02 01:51:45PM
I sent a longer private email explaining my position, but I'll state a brief summary here for the record:
  • The hints are available free, right here, all day every day, and 5x more numerous than the book.
  • There are no ads here and just one "please subscribe" box. That's it in terms of arm twisting for payments.
  • If you want a free book of the site, use File -> Save as PDF to create it.
  • Unlike other sites that require paid subscriptions to access their best features, everything on macosxhints.com is available to everyone, all the time.
  • If you don't like the site, or the way I run it, then don't support it or the book.
Whether people choose to keep contributing hints or not is up to them, not me. If they stop submitting, then they stop, and the site will go back to what it started as - a public database of information on OS X, and a place for me to keep all the nuggets I discover about OS X ... you, of course, would then have to find another supplier for hints beyond those that I could supply myself, as the pace here would slow down greatly. I also guess I'd gain about 1,000 hours of free time next year, which wouldn't be a bad thing.

-rob.

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My response...
Authored by: Accura on Dec 24, '02 06:13:23PM

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hehehe good call rob

to all you people out there fishing for free copies, fork out some of that dosh and give back to the site that we all have taken so much from, i know i will

jameso



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