Many of us are under-employed, and the publishers don't accept food stamps. :-)

And remember Thomas Mann: "Everything has it's price"

I subscribe to the Zen saying: It isn't worth a thing, unless it is freely given.

I applaud Laurent_R's attitude toward disseminating his knowledge. May he get good karma from it.

I included the restricted information solely because the Perl Newsletter article made prominent mention of it, not because I thought it was restricting us. I am very happy with the whole situation. There are some grey shaded areas though, like what happens when some monk posts a verbatim example from the book, and dosn't provide a link to the source, because he saw the code on some server somewhere, and the code ends up in a commercial product?

Most of the code out there is at least in part plagiarism of some earlier code. Code made public is public, full stop.

I see the only restriction as follows: you may take my entire book, translate into some other language and publish it for free on the Internet. You may not print and sell that translation without prior authorization. That's about it.

Update: fixed a typo.