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French Response to Google is Microsoft
efp writes "Mark Liberman posted over in the Language Log that, in considering alternatives to Google's library initiative in Europe, French President Jacques Chirac would consider a partnership with Microsoft 'since he has so many views in common with its president, Bill Gates'. This comes out of talks between the French president, the head of the French National Library and the Minister of Culture, in in part 'building an alter ego to the American project, before thinking of an eventual collaboration with Google, so as not to negotiate from a position of weakness' as they plan to digitize their cultural resources."
If anyone needed proof that France is evil, here it is.
--- 11 meters/second, or 24 miles per hour - the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow. Really.
I refuse to post this anonymously: this place makes me sick!
The knee-jerk racism that a large proportion of Slashdotters display is very much tied in with the reason there's so much bad feeling against the United States out in the rest of the world...
Why stop there? Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, the list goes on.
Seriously, if you're looking for a good moral compass, you could do worse than heading in the opposite direction of wherever it is France is headed.
Still sucking English exhaust, I hope they enjoy the sensation because I suspect things won't change. Position of power? France? G'luck.
you'd be scared to have your children taught by somone who actually knows his discipline and is well read. wow. i'm stupid? neil, i assume that's your name (or is it what you do!!), you haven't any idea. because we share a differing opinion, that frightens you? perhaps you should read a book or two, and maybe you'd feel a bit more secure in YOUR beliefs, well that's the trouble, they're beliefs not knowledge. you can believe anything, hell some idiots make a movie, and people believe it. and it even sells well, and they pimp it to the academy, and in an election year, though it's full of lies and half truths, but correct politically...try responding with intelligence rather than bluster.
as mick foley says, have a nice day.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Yeah, and you've just shown us how Americans have gotten their reputation.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The USA on the other hand surrendered to Somalia, North Vietnam, North Korea (they still have a captured US ship).