Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft

Cory Doctorow sounds the alarm over a Library of Congress deal with Microsoft that will have collections locked up in Silverlight. I'll double the Microsoft deal and offer them $6M in perl scripts and an infinite value of free OS software if they let me (or Google or any other honest company) publish their collections in free formats. "This deal involves the donation of 'technology, services and funding' (e.g., mostly not money) with a purported value of $3M from Microsoft to the Library of Congress. The Library, in turn, agrees to put kiosks running Vista in the library and to use Microsoft Silverlight to 'help power the library's new Web site, www.myloc.gov.'"

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Re:where's the advantage?

[Anonymous Coward]

HAHAHA! Linux users are such a small group that the Congress of The United States won't care what the hell a bunch of kids think... YOU LOST ONCE MORE!!!!! Perhaps you can send an e-mail to the Congress of WoW??? Hahahaha.
So, the other government branches are following the DoD and deactivating any project that involves Linux or Open Source software... Pretty good. All Open Source freaks should follow Fidel Castro and retire!
SOFTWARE IS FOR PROFIT!!!! AND REAL MEN USE WINDOWS!!!

Do no evil?

[kir]

I'll double the Microsoft deal and offer them $6M in perl scripts and an infinite value of free OS software if they let me (or Google or any other honest company) publish their collections in free formats.

Google? Do no evil, right? Honest?

Need I mention China?