[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 14:29:51 UTC 2008


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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