Translations:Essays:TNT: free tech books/18/en

Just think, these books have been around for over a quarter of a century, and this is largely thanks to the open license. However, some might argue with me, stating that history has shown instances where commercial publishers have taken over someone else's work when the original authors were unavailable for some reason. For example, after the death of W. Richard Stevens in 1999, Stephen A. Rago continued his monumental work titled Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment. I would not insist that open licensing is the only way for a book to avoid obscurity. Certainly, that's not the case. But I'm convinced that a book under an open license has a lower chance of becoming "orphaned."