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Printing Wikipedia
rtnair writes "Entries from Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users, may soon be available in print for readers in the developing world, founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday."
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Great, so now people in developing countries will learn the truth... or just read lots of entires which have been "vandalized" with the word "boobies!"
So now we have someplace to send all of those out of work encyclopedia salesmen! They can hawk wikipedia in the third world! I can see them trapsing about, lugging a satchel full of CDs. "You don't want to deprive your children from having access to these wonderful volumes!"
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
Presumaby each copy will be written in pencil and supplied with an eraser?
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Personally I can't wait to get the hardcopy of the Robocop disertation.
First we had "it must be true, I read it in a book somewhere", then we had "it must be true, I read it in the internet somewhere". Now we have come a full circle - it must be true since it is in a printed encyclopedia.
I'm not a great supporter of disclaimers, but here I think it would serve well.
It's like printing the Internet! /dev/lp0
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Wow...This will be a huge job for Google books to scan in...
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