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Some of these corporations are experts in shooting in the foot. I wanted to read 'The Swift Programming Language (Swift 3.1 Edition)'. It is just an epub, just
by vetinari 10y ago
Some of these corporations are experts in shooting in the foot.
I wanted to read 'The Swift Programming Language (Swift 3.1 Edition)'. It is just an epub, just distributed via Apple iBooks, right?
When trying to open in on an Android tablet, I found out that it is DRM-ed. Why on earth would you put DRM on a publication you want to circulate as widely as possible? Why would anyone have to read reference docs for multi platform language on a single platform?
That certainly dampened my enthusiasm for Swift.
- geodel 10y agoI would think it is an oversight. From their website: > This ePub document is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. They should make PDF/html available to all.
- vetinari 10y agoHopefully, it might be oversight. The (non-DRM) epub is fine too, it is just a bunch of of html files, zipped.
- drew-y 10y agoThe download link from swift.org doesn't seem to be DRM'd. I can open it just fine in my ePub reader. Maybe its an iBooks thing? https://swift.org/documentation/TheSwiftProgrammingLanguage(Swift3.1).epub https://swift.org/documentation/TheSwiftProgrammingLanguage(...
- vetinari 10y agoMaybe iBook thing. The 3.0 edition wasn't DRM-ed, though.
- pjmlp 10y agoNo, it is distributed on the open source site since it exists. https://swift.org/documentation/ https://swift.org/documentation/ I never had any issue reading it on Aldiko, even the Apple versions.
- vetinari 10y agoI have it from iBooks, because in the past, it wasn't on the site yet. Since then, I just update it via iBooks. The previous editions didn't have DRM either.
- dzonga 10y agoJust the same as the book: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/Extensions.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH24-ID151 https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...