I was just going to check something in FGA and I didn't have access to my pdf-copy, so I did what I normally do when in such a circumstance: surf to the Grothendieck circle's webpage. 


And what did I find there? All mathematical texts written by Grothendieck himself was removed "per his request". 


Does anyone know what this is about and/or what's going on here?



What's up with the Grothendieck circle?
Grothendieck seems to have requested that all his materials be taken town. As pointed out in comments, this has been discussed fairly [thoroughly](http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/grothendiecks-letter/) on [the blogs](http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/02/grothendieck_said_stop.html) and, in fact, [on meta](http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/205/strange-message-on-yves-laszlos-sga-4-page/#Item_27).


