[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

Mon Dec 22 14:54:43 UTC 2008

"but possibly illegal" you can omit the word "possibly". I dont see a copy
left license at their site.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> > And Britannica has this totally weird feature - the article loads
> > itself as soon as the scrollbar progresses through it. So even if it
> > is free as in beer, it is obnoxiously inconvenient to copy text from
> > it, 'cuz Ctrl-A doesn't work as expected.
>
> ... And of course, i forgot to mention that it is not free in the
> Stallman-Lessig sense, so copying text from is not only inconvenient,
> but possibly illegal.
>
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