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This series of books was born out of frustrations in two respects. The first issue
is the enormous price of college textbooks. It is unacceptable that the price of the
college books will be over $150 per book (over 10 hours of work for an average
student in The United States).
The second issue that prompted the writing of this book is the fact that
we as the public have to deal with a corrupted judicial system. As individuals we
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have to obey the law, particularly the copyright law with the “infinite ” time with the
copyright holders. However, when applied to “small” individuals who are not able
to hire a large legal firm, judges simply manufacture facts to make the little guy
lose and pay for the defense of his work. On one hand, the corrupted court system
defends the “big” guys and on the other hand, punishes the small “entrepreneur”
who tries to defend his or her work. It has become very clear to the author and
founder of the POTTO Project that this situation must be stopped. Hence, the
creation of the POTTO Project. As R. Kook, one of this author’s sages, said instead
of whining about arrogance and incorrectness, one should increase wisdom. This
project is to increase wisdom and humility.
The POTTO Project has far greater goals than simply correcting an abu-
sive Judicial system or simply exposing abusive judges. It is apparent that writing
textbooks especially for college students as a cooperation, like an open source,
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is a new idea . Writing a book in the technical field is not the same as writing a
novel. The writing of a technical book is really a collection of information and prac-
tice. There is always someone who can add to the book. The study of technical
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for more information) copyrights practically remain in-
definitely with the holder (not the creator).
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