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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by RyanMcGreal on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:16AM (#3247868)
> regardless of how the original author may feel about his works being shared without his consent.

If diveintomark.org was still up, I'd be able to link to Pilgrim's amazing "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you" essay, which defended his decision to licence his books under the GNU Free Documentation License. Here's the HN discussion on that piece:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=891726

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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by manuscreationis on Thursday November 17, 2011 @11:30AM (#3248158)
Good to know, thanks!
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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to Mark Pilgrim? by pasbesoin on Friday November 18, 2011 @02:32PM (#3253027)
Since he allowed the work to be cached, I'll assume this is ok not just legally but also personally:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110514112625/http://diveintomar...

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