Re: a crazy idea -- the Book

[Casey Marshall]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 12:51 PM, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

> hello all,
>
> with every visit to the bookstore i see new titles about java, swing,
> etc.  most of them being just printed collections of already public
> APIs.
>
> Classpath is more than just a bunch of APIs, and if there's a book  
> worth
> reading about Java (and free VMs) it would be about what this project,
> its team of collaborators and hackers, and user VMs.  i'm not talking
> about people but software: what more, or better, Classpath + friends
> offer to the Java developers.
>
> has anybody given a thought to the idea of publishing such a book?

I think this is a great idea. I once had the notion of starting an  
informal course on Free Software, e.g., a simple overview of how to  
develop software with free software.

A manual of sorts that showed both how and why to use a free Java  
runtime would be great.