Note also Ronnie's intervention there. He is making the point that AG gave permission for various things to be distributed, so for instance PS seems to cause no problem. I have not the letter in front of me but I wonder if it is not more of a warning to people who have produced pirated (as he sees) version of stuff that is still in copyright for commercial reasons. Also for people who have translated material without permission. Both of those are less dire than some of the interpretations. The question of SGAs is more delicate as AG holds the copyright. It should be said that most of the ideas in say SGA4 are available in digested form in later books (e.g. all the stuff on toposes).
]]>On a related note to Zoran's #14, I myself like comment #85 at http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/grothendiecks-letter/.
]]>Thanks, Zoran.
]]>I like Toby's post at http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/grothendiecks-letter/ a lot!
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]]>As one can see by following the Google cache, Laszlo has not taken down the files, only the links to them. But I have my own copy now. (Supply and demand, as Urs said!)
I don't suppose that anybody is competent to speculate clearly about what motivates Grothendieck today. I certainly am not!
Thanks for the notice, Harry.
]]>I suspect he may feel dissatisfied with the results, proofs, etc. in the available copy, as there are some glitches and errors. He may also have have turned against mathematics as he felt very disillusioned with mathematicians!
]]>Well one can only speculate. I have a feeling that even the people in the know (Laszlo and collaborators) won't be much more forthcoming, and I'm not going to speculate, despite the natural temptation.
]]>Clear case of an attempt to raise demand by shortening supply.
;-)
]]>Try searching for the page on G0ogle and go to the cached copy.
I've sent out a message on the category theory mailing list asking for info about this.
Edit: I see Harry's been asking elsewhere, and said there he had the files, so I'll leave the above advice for interested others.
]]>How did you find this out, Harry?
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