If they ask me, I will ask for a cut; if they refuse, I *may* give them
permission anyway, but since I've seen the production values in some of
these books, I probably would not.
Envy doesn't enter into it. Firstly, if they're so hard up that they need
to take what ought to be and generally is freely available electronically,
steal it from the people who wrote it, and try make money off of it,
there's nothing to envy.
Covetousness? Maybe, but that term is rather perjorative. Let us say,
rather, that I find it underhanded, at the least, for a stranger to make a
profit of of my work without even asking me first.
And frankly, I don't give a damn about stranger's profits, if they can't
find a more honest way to make them.
/mss1
-- Michael Scott Shappe CIT Collaboration Systems PEM/RIPEM public key available upon request.
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