[Foundation-l] Evil Book

Tue Nov 2 19:33:22 UTC 2010

The point is that you search for a book on Amazon, and find a book for 50
dollars that is just a conglomeration of articles that were put together by
a computer, not a human, and therefore have little value. It is just a big
rip off.

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 November 2010 12:02,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> > In a message dated 11/1/2010 11:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > cimonavaro at gmail.com writes:
>
> >> Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people
> >> more
> >> savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally
> got
> >> some
> >> dead tree stuff out there with the WMF trademark on them for real.
>
> > The WMF cannot be, whatsoever, in any position as endorsing the final
> > content.
> > That would violate the seperation of host to content.
>
>
> Er, books and CDs and DVDs of reprinted Wikipedia content have been
> distributed in the past with a licensed name and puzzle globe and WMF
> even getting money from said licensing.
>
>
> - d.
>
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