> I suspect the site exists instead because the company wants to have a web site with a lot of traffic but isn't willing to pay anyone to write things people want to read. Thus their solution is to reuse material from books and convince people to contribute original material in exchange for badges and coupons.
And the material not reused from books (both some posts and most of the answers so far, perhaps all of the answers so far) comes from various O'Reilly employees who have a new responsibility: "seeding O'Reilly answers."
And the material not reused from books (both some posts and most of the answers so far, perhaps all of the answers so far) comes from various O'Reilly employees who have a new responsibility: "seeding O'Reilly answers."