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> There comes a point at which a book belongs more to its readers than to its author. EGA is well past that point. Try imagining the world we'd live in now if E
by wolfgke 7y ago
> There comes a point at which a book belongs more to its readers than to its author. EGA is well past that point. Try imagining the world we'd live in now if Euclid had managed to suppress all copies of his _Geometry_.
Tell this to the politicians who created the copyright laws.
- JadeNB 7y ago> Tell this to the politicians who created the copyright laws. I am sure Grothendieck would be on the front lines of those castigating such politicians. He made this request not to ensure personal gain, but to express his profound disappointment with and disengagement from society as he saw it.