French Response to Google is Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 26, 2005 @10:53AM from the le-goog dept.

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."

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MOD PARENT UP by BarryNorton · 2005-03-26 11:37 · Score: 1, Flamebait

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...