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____/ Rick on Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 14:44 : \____
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:39:54 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 23 Feb 2010 08:05 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> Microsoft And British Library Develop Open Source Research Tool
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>>>>| The Research Information Centre (RIC) | Framework v1.0 released this
>>>>week has been | designed to help international researchers |
>>>>collaborate more effectively. Hosted via | Microsoft's open source
>>>>Codeplex project | and based on Microsoft Office SharePoint | Server
>>>>2007 Platform, the "virtual research | environment" allows researchers
>>>>to create | and share content and also work on specific | issues such
>>>>as funding proposals, the | organisations claim.
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>>>> http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/microsoft-and-british-library-
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>> open-source-research-tool-3306
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>>> So far as I'm aware, sharepoint won't even talk to Firefox. It's
>>> another "jolting experience".
>>>
>>> Further - what on earth has "funding proposals" got to do with me, us,
>>> getting free access to the books we've already paid for?
>>
>> In the Unites States, citizens must pay to read the law in some states.
>
> What states?
I think there was a big thing in Oregon over this. Let me look it up...
Oh, here's something:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/16/1925206/Professor-Posts-Illegal-Copy-of-Guide-to-Oregon-Public-Record-Laws?from=rss
In some east European country there was a more severe thing some months ago.
Some guy owned the law.
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