Re:An Introduction to Computer Networks (2015)
by gshubert17 on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:31PM
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The author writes on one reason why he released this open-access textbook in 2015:
> Perhaps the last straw, for me, was patent 8195571 for a roundabout method to force students to purchase textbooks. (A simpler strategy might be to include the price of the book in the course.) At some point, faculty have to be advocates for their students rather than, well, Hirudinea. [leeches]
BTW, the website for all versions (including PDF) of this text (currently version 2.0.2, September, 2020) is:
> Perhaps the last straw, for me, was patent 8195571 for a roundabout method to force students to purchase textbooks. (A simpler strategy might be to include the price of the book in the course.) At some point, faculty have to be advocates for their students rather than, well, Hirudinea. [leeches]
BTW, the website for all versions (including PDF) of this text (currently version 2.0.2, September, 2020) is:
http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu