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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Book Search Goes Down in Flames!

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Book Search Goes Down in Flames!
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 01:15:55 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Microsoft Burns Down Book Search
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Citing poor demand, Microsoft will back away from scanning and
> | indexing books | and academic works for Live Search
> `----
> 
> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/23/microsoft-burns-down-book-search

What? There's "poor demand" for DRM encumbered books? Amazing.

> Another failure. This must have wasted a fortune. More resentment for
> Google.

They should leave it to the pros like Internet Archive and Gutenberg,
who are motived by academic principles and altruism, rather than greed.

> And this is the company that wants to store medical data.

Would you trust your /life/ to a company that sells backup software that
corrupts files, then takes a /year/ to correct the problem.

Would you trust your life to a company that claims /ownership/ of /your/
data, using licenses and DRM?

Your life in their hands.

Frightening.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| 'When it comes to knowledge, "ownership" just doesn't make sense'
|     ~ Cory Doctorow, The Guardian.  http://tinyurl.com/22bgx8
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