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?