On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:05 PM, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
Hm, what exactly are our relations with Microsoft then? :) We are not in a fight with them either, are we? Also Encarta for instance would be an interesting partner imho (If only because they know a lot about distribution), although again the big quetsion is whether *they* are willing for a cooperation of course (and to have any result of that under a free license)
2008/6/9 Przykuta przykuta@o2.pl:
It is not a heresy Milos. It is a good idea, even if they don't want free licenses, they have a big experience. We don't fight with Britannica, but we make the Internet, not suck :) Our relations with Britannica are not similar to relations between Microsoft and FSW, not in all aspects. In Poland we think about talking/meeting with PWN - we want it, they... I don't know.
Encarta is not the main Microsoft's business, so some secondary reasons may be crucial in their decision to go or not to go to the free knowledge. And because of that I didn't think about them.
But, for Britannica this is a very important question. At the era of Internet [and Wikipedia] the most of people are not willing to spend more money on their books or CDs or DVDs. So, they need to find some other business model. Which means that they may to try to copy free software based business model of big corporations, like IBM is. And we are the free knowledge partner.