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Originally Posted by dottedmag
Famous lib.rus.ec library (placed literally in Ecuador to avoid problems with copyright laws) is built on wiki principle (modified: the main idea is to let everyone add and replace books) and grew a community which works on improving books.
Just remove barriers for improvement (either legal, social or technical) and improvement will follow.
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I get your idea and i sympathize with such views but i also understand that businesses have to make money to pay their employees (and their shareholders). Businesses have to follow some different rules than communities and have to balance (in their opinion) acceptable error rates against the costs of extended qualitiy tests and product maintenance. As a consumer i don't like such practices but as a employee i can see why it's neccessary. You are a software developer too and i'm sure you know what i mean.
PS: Here at MR any member can upload an ebook or post a newer/other version. But in most cases we uploaders prefer to fix reported errors by ourself.