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So why does the author stop short of telling us what he thinks are the fair terms here? Also, I wonder how his earlier books have fared monetarily over their l

• santaclaus 11y ago
  I don't think that the life time of his older books is necessarily over (for better or worse... probably for the worse but that is another discussion). Much of the advice in the old books is still 100% valid ('Prevent exceptions from leaving destructors'), and C++98 is still an entirely valid subset of the language. It is going to be a long time before even a fraction of that existing code is phased out or updated.
• jasode 11y ago
  >So why does the author stop short of telling us what he thinks are the fair terms here? Even if a publishing contract does not have a provision for non-disclosure and confidentiality, it's standard business etiquette not to publicly discuss the actual financial terms. It's the same type of professional etiquette when a programmer says, "I jumped from Microsoft to Google for more money." The "more" is left to the readers' imagination and it would be rude of us to ask for specifics. Unfortunately, since his essay dances around any concrete numbers, the point about "fairness" might seem like a build up to punchline that never comes.