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Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-haggling-over-the-price dept.

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.'"

3 of 297 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Silverlight by twistedcubic · · Score: 0, Troll


    Silverlight is NOT Windows only.

    Yes it is. Thank you.

  2. Re:Silverlight by statusbar · · Score: 0, Troll

    So my friend should have no problems installing moonlight on his iPhone or iPod touch then?

    --jeffk++

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    ipv6 is my vpn
  3. Re:where's the disadvantage? by dissy · · Score: 0, Troll

    We can hope that when MS pulls their usual stunts, now that the LOC is dependant on it, the govt will seriously just revoke MS's IP rights to it, and if they dont comply with the LOC demands, revoke the microsoft corporation status.

    They have the teeth, ability, and legal backing to do this.
    The only question is, do they have the balls to?