Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Mon Dec 4 08:27:39 PST 2000


At 05:26 AM 12/4/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Traditional Chinese copyright law only applied to civilization,
>i.e. Chinese-language books written by Chinese; stuff written by
>barbarians wasn't provided, so lots of my Taiwanese fellow students in
college
>had much lower-cost versions of US-written textbooks, and that tradition
>was adapted to software on CD-ROMs at least until recently.

Maybe so with Chinese, but many publishers publish 
overseas-only versions of CS texts because the furriners (e.g., Indians)
couldn't afford US rates.  I've seen legitimately licensed $5 copies 
of, e.g., K & R printed on thinner paper...



 






  









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