10 Jan
2005
10 Jan
'05
9:41 p.m.
On Jan 10, 2005, at 4:27 PM, D. Starner wrote:
Twenty-eight years in the computer industry would hurt about 10 books. Andrew Tannenbaum and Donald Knuth would have to worry about people updating older editions and competing with them.
I suspect Knuth's greater concern would be the loss of quality control, and the possibility of unauthorized, updated/modified editions having errors - possibly significant errors - while still being attributed to Knuth. (Especially since Knuth pays people for finding errors in his work.)