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Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library

Posted by samzenpus on from the many-against-one dept.

anonymousNR writes "From the BBC, 'Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works. "Google is trying to monopolise the library system," the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle said.'"

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  1. monoplizing? by allcaps · · Score: 2, Funny

    They aren't monopolizing anything; they're cornering the market. Huge difference.

  2. what's open? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what exactly is "open" about the Open Book Alliance? Or was the name chosen for being a bad play on words.

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    This guy's the limit!
  3. Re:Open X Alliance by AmberBlackCat · · Score: 1, Funny

    Leave Mozilla out of this.

  4. shill alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

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