On Mon, February 13, 2012 12:15 am, Greg Newby wrote:
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:15:41PM -0700, Lee Passey wrote:
On 2/11/2012 11:18 AM, don kretz wrote:
And it's remarkable someone would try to reconstruct the data and yet be so indifferent about having the page images to refer to,. or accessible from the text.
What I find remarkable is that after 2 decades anyone would expect the Project Gutenberg old guard to do anything other than the same thing they've been doing.
....Which is to leave such decisions to the eBook's submitter(s).
Precisely my point. So all you complainers out there, know that your suggestions to improve PG will fall on deaf ears. As far as PG is concerned, what was is what will be. 1971 Michael Hart was given an operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the mainframe at the University of Illinois. When he first started entering texts into that system he asked no one's permission -- he "just did it." Today that philosophy still holds. Mr. Newby has offered disk space and a fat pipe to anyone who wants to improve Project Gutenberg. That offer is equivalent to the operator's time Mr. Hart started with. Now anyone who wants to improve PG can "just do it." No permission is needed. So stop trying to improve Project Gutenberg, and just start developing the alternative.