Look at the date on the post versus the dates on the comments. Things that aren’t clear tend to come clearer in two and a half years.

The book’s gone. It’s history. A relic of a time I have no desire whatsoever to revisit. That’s publishing.

If you don’t like it, well, there’s nothing I can do about it. Or nothing I *will* do about it. I’ve got other things I have to do with life now.

‘All rights did revert back to me, so I can find another publisher if I decide I want to finish it.’

‘Have you thought about publishing it to the public domain,’

‘Can’t do it. The rights remain with O’Reilly’

O’Reilly would have the rights to release it, assuming they have any copies of any of it. I doubt they do. And as strange as it may seem, I’m not positive I can locate my copies at this point.

But on the plus side, virtually everything that I learned in the process of writing those chapters (and then some) ended up here somewhere. Not in the same form, but arguably better. In some cases definitely better, since Linux and its supporting software has changed a lot in three years. The main thrust of the book was having a Windows guy explain Linux to other Windows guys. That’s what we’ve got here.