[Foundation-l] Babylon Ltd using Wikipedia - press release questions

Thu Feb 16 12:56:09 UTC 2006

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David Gerard wrote:

>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060214/uktu013.html?.v=48
>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-14-2006/0004281390&EDATE=
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>  OR YEHUDA, Israel, February 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Ltd., the leading
>  provider of single-click translation and information access software, and
>  Wikipedia the free-content, user edited encyclopedia, today announced the
>  launch of the Wikipedia as part of Babylon's solution.
>
>    [...]
>
>  "Our collaboration with Wikipedia is the first of its kind for Babylon".
>  said Alon Carmeli, VP Sales and Marketing, Babylon Ltd.
>
>Dropping our name so as to imply a more active collaboration than
>downloading a database dump ... that seems slightly questionable
>behaviour. Unless, of course, there was an active collaboration with
>Babylon Ltd?
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