Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: Pattern Language online?

[Jock Coats (jock.coats]

Sharon Villines wrote:

> Pattern Language is over a thousand pages long. I doubt if it is online.
>
> But ordering from Amazon is very easy. They ship everywhere and do the
> currency conversions on your credit card. I also looked for used copies but
> they are more expensive than the new edition at Amazon (and are not first
> editions either -- like the 28th printing at US$85)
>
>
> Sharon
>  
<business ethics alert>Amazon are 'problematic' to many in the open 
source software development community which is a natural corollory to 
co-housing and co-operative business in the IT industry.  They have 
tried to patent small bits of code that would, if the pattern is set, 
make it very difficult for any software engineer to do anything unless 
they could prove it was totally original (and just how many ways can you 
make two and two equal to four in an algorithm?).  If you can find 
another book supplier, please consider using them instead of 
Amazon</business ethics alert>

Jock...:-)

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