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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."
Microsoft would never surrendur!
-Thomas;
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to Microsoft.
a man, a plan, a canal, panama
Actually, it does at Slashdot. From the FAQ:
Redundant -- Redundant posts are ones which add no new information, but instead take up space with repeating information either in the Slashdot post, the attached links, or lots of previous comments. For instance, some posters cut and paste otherwise legitimate comments in multiple places in the same discussion; the pasted versions are Redundant.
Rob
The obvious implication is that the previous comments took place within the discussion for that particular article (an implication that you snipped out). If it were otherwise, then it would require the assumption that people reading the discussion have already read all of the discussions on /. previous to it, which certainly isn't true.
Rob