[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 01:55:38 UTC 2008


If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica
became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some
irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition
every 10 seconds (or so), but, in fact, it is possible to copy-paste
the content somewhere else and read it. Hm. Wikipedia doesn't have
that irritating screen. (OK, banner is irritating, but it is not of
that kind ;) )

Does anyone have some more informations about it? Also, may someone
(who owns some newer edition of Britannica: paper or electronic)
check, let's say, this link [1] and confirm that this is the complete
article.

[1] - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/268173/Hittite-language



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