[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

[David Goodman]

Sorry, wrong company name--I was thinking of another one --a truly
competent one, Outsell, that has undoubtedly nothing to do with this
nonsensical method of protection.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Upsell is the name of the leading market research company in
> publishing--probably they are the ones who designed it. I'm suprised,
> for they are generally known as competent.
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
>>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
>>>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
>>
>>> Thanks! It works well :)
>>
>>
>> They called the function "upsell"? *facepalm* Wikipedia doesn't need
>> to do anything to compete with Britannica, just leave them to collapse
>> under the weight of their own ineptitude.
>>
>> We should probably run a large public "Save Britannica!" campaign -
>> how to save a great historical encyclopedia, second only to the OED as
>> one of the great works of Anglophone non-fiction, from its own
>> business stupidity. I'm halfway serious. What could we do with a "Save
>> Britannica" campaign?
>>
>> (There are many ways in which it sucks, but it still manages
>> *consistent* quality better than en:wp. Better writing, too. A lot of
>> us wouldn't be doing this Wikipedia thing if we weren't encyclopedia
>> fans in the first place, and that includes Britannica.)
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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