On 10 May 2005, at 6:53, Michael Hart wrote:
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Richard Poynder wrote:
On 6 May 2005, at 11:29, Michael Hart wrote:
We have received very good conservative legal advice that Project Gutenberg is indeed a library or archive, and probably both, and has been for over a decade.
Branko Collin wrote:
"Likewise, he encouraged libraries to "push back against the easy assertion that Project Gutenberg is a library.""
(I am not sure what that person was on about though. Full article at <http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/06/427b00a8e ff7 d>.)
We get messages all the time from people who want to convince the world that "it isn't and eBook/eLibrary until _I_ say it is an eBook/eLibrary."
And of course the next day the wheel turns half a rotation and prof. Michael S. Hart gets called a bona fide "hero of the global literacy revolution" (<http://star- techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/4/28/itfeature/10719288&sec= itfeature>). :-) -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl