On: Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM

[vetinari]

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.

[pjmlp → vetinari]

No, it is distributed on the open source site since it exists.

https://swift.org/documentation/

I never had any issue reading it on Aldiko, even the Apple versions.

[vetinari → pjmlp]

I 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.

[geodel → vetinari]

I 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 → geodel]

Hopefully, it might be oversight.

The (non-DRM) epub is fine too, it is just a bunch of of html files, zipped.

[drew-y → vetinari]

The 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(...

[vetinari → drew-y]

Maybe iBook thing. The 3.0 edition wasn't DRM-ed, though.

[dzonga → vetinari]

Just the same as the book: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...