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Re: [News] British Library's Gamble on Microsoft and DRM Backfires Badly

  • Subject: Re: [News] British Library's Gamble on Microsoft and DRM Backfires Badly
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:22:03 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: A poorly-maintained Debian GNU/Linux InterNetNews site
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:746508

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> British Library fears loss of history
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Lynne Brindley, director of the British Library, said that data and 
>| information on our time that has been entrusted to the web is being lost as  
>| some sites close or the technology they have stored the information on 
>| becomes obsolete.  
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/623/1050623/british-library-fears-loss-history

Perhaps our venerable librarians should confine their activities to the
management of books, and leave the technical delivery to engineers?

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