“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, April 4, 2011

Just Don't Be Evil


If you're digitizing books, it might be good not to set up paywalls or obscure snippet views that enable you only to see little tiny bits of things. Stop cutting copyright deals with shady characters. Have a care for serious humanities scholars, like archive.org does. Then you won't have your ass handed to you in court. Then you don't have to worry about losing your base who just like to read easily accessible out of print books.

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