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When it comes to digitizing books, two stories appear to be unfolding: One is about open source, and the other, Google.
Or so it seemed at a party held by the Internet Archive on Tuesday evening, when the nonprofit foundation and a parade of partners, including the Smithsonian Institution, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, rallied around a collective open-source initiative to digitize all the world's books and make them universally available.
So Microsoft, who won't work with the Open Document Format and who tell lies about Open Source left right and centre are here joining in with an Open Content Project regarding books.
First I was confused.
Now I understand.
They're more than happy to jump on the Open Source bandwagon as long as it's not their own stuff they have to open source.
Like the song says;
hypocrisy is the greatest luxury
raise the double standard
(Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury)
Remember those old Ray Harryhausen films with slightly dodgily animated monsters slugging it out?
Think Google and Microsoft!
MS will do 'whatever' it perceives is necessary to win in the marketplace. They've proven that over and over.
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First I was confused. Now I understand.
They're more than happy to jump on the Open Source bandwagon as long as it's not their own stuff they have to open source.
Like the song says;
hypocrisy is the greatest luxury raise the double standard (Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury)
Remember those old Ray Harryhausen films with slightly dodgily animated monsters slugging it out? Think Google and Microsoft!