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Imagine My Surprise: Open Books
February 2004
Over the years, O'Reilly has published a number of "Open Books"--books with various forms of open copyright. We recently adopted the Creative Commons Founders' Copyright, which we'll apply to hundreds of other titles over time. In this month's column, O'Reilly reader Collin Starkweather describes how his copy of Free as in Freedom got lost in a move, but his research work was saved when he discovered O'Reilly's Open Books Project.
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Oracle Built-In Packages
December 2003
Scott Galliand wrote to us because he's ready for a new edition of Oracle Built-In Packages. O'Reilly editor Debby Russell explains why we haven't updated this title, and she describes what we've done instead to address the information pain around Oracle's abundance of packages.
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Oracle on Windows
November 2003
Why doesn't O'Reilly have an Oracle on Windows title? Editor Jonathan Gennick writes, "Every time we consider a platform-specific book on Oracle, we struggle with the fact that once you get past the initial installation and configuration, Oracle is pretty much the same across all platforms."
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Promotional Booklets
October 2003
Readers Barb Johnson and Russell Dyer describe how they use O'Reilly's promotional booklets with blank pages.
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Does the second edition of Perl Cookbook cover Perl 6?
August 2003
Does the second edition of Perl Cookbook cover Perl 6? O'Reilly's Perl editor, Linda Mui, offers a Q&A.;
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An Experience with Safari
July 2003
Ian Stoba, a Safari subscriber, describes a recent experience he had when his credit card submission was rejected. He writes, "Many other businesses could stand to learn that putting well informed and capable people in front of customers earns loyal, repeat business."
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