On 1/12/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
My point was not about permissions. It even assumes that we will receive all the permissions we want. It's about why we are better suited to carry this material than Northwestern U. It's about the ethics of a Borg-ism that indiscriminately vacuums up all the material it can find.
I'm not sure that this is a matter of us thinking we're a better host than Northwestern U for anyone else. It's us thinking that for our own use, we're a better host than them, because having a local copy is good. Because they might move their stuff in future or even take it down. Lots of reasons that for our own purposes, taking our own copy is useful.
-Matt