Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] books about GNU Radio

[Tom Rondeau]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:52 PM, John McKendry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Steve,
>
>  I didn't mean to accuse you or Adi or anyone of intending to violate
> copyright, and I apologize for giving that impression. The Wyglinski
> et al. and Rondeau/Bostian books have apparently been uploaded as pdfs
> to downarchive.com, and that does strike me as a flagrant violation of
> copyright, and since I work with GNU Radio, those authors are
> colleagues even if they've never heard of me. downarchive.com is
> hosted in Viet Nam and may be beyond the realistic reach of copyright
> enforcement, but that's just not the right way to get those books.
>
> John


Thanks, John. I'm watching this thread thinking, "guys, I'm right here!"

Also, Alex Wyglinksi is a pretty good friend of mine, and I'm glad
people are finding the material useful enough to pirate it. Just word
on my book. It's not meant to properly introduce how to use GNU Radio;
I just used GNU Radio as the basis of the experiments and examples
that were covered in the book. The GNU Radio parts of the book will
probably be more useful to an advanced user and not as beginner
material.

Not that that should stop you from buying it... ;-)

Tom


> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Steve Mcmahon
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> John:
>> No one is trying to violate copyright here (at least I am not). I think 
>> people are just trying to obtain good resources. I don't understand why 
>> McGraw Hill would announce but then never publish Cory Clark's book. I 
>> assume the book was completely written, but then they didn't want to publish 
>> it at the end. That seems stupid of them to do. It robs the community of a 
>> potentially good resource, and it only encourages piracy. They should have 
>> at least published it as a PDF e-book or something. It would have sold as 
>> well as any other SDR book. Anyway, I am certainly interested in purchasing 
>> the book, if I can find it.
>>
>> Adi:
>> Are you saying that you can find Cory Clark's book at 
>> http://www.downarchive.com/? Perhaps there is a way to contact Cory Clark 
>> himself to obtain/purchase a copy in PDF format? I did a google search for 
>> him, and all I can find is the following:
>>
>> 1. "Cory L. Clark is a senior software engineer with Motorola and has 
>> developed many LabVIEW-based DSP tools. He holds a master's degree in 
>> electrical engineering from Georgia Tech."
>>
>> 2. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cory-clark/5/794/145
>>
>> 3. 
>> http://www.amazon.com/LabVIEW-Digital-Signal-Processing-Communications/dp/0071444920/
>>
>> I ask people to please post any more information they can find. Perhaps we, 
>> as a community, could ask Cory Clark (if we can contact him) if he could 
>> provide/sell his manuscript in PDF format, unless McGraw Hill retains the 
>> rights to it, and would prohibit him from selling it or distributing it on 
>> his own. He could self-publish it on Lulu.com for any price he would like (I 
>> have bought several good and very-reasonably-priced technical books in PDF 
>> format from there before).
>>
>> For example:
>> http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/signal-processing-techniques-for-software-radios-2nd-edition/11905545?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/3
>>
>> Steve McMahon
>>
>
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