Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library

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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Re:Open X Alliance

[icannotthinkofaname]

Yeah, I wasn't sure where to put the ???.

In my experience, it normally comes right before the Profit step.

Mostly I was poking fun at Google's Open Handset Alliance, which may be "open", but at the end of the day has most of the same restrictions that the iPhone does in practical terms.

Ah. I see. Well, that was a giant "whoosh" over my head, then. My bad.