Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library

Re:Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library by euccastro on Monday July 16, 2007 @07:02PM (#34615)

From one of the comments:

> Amazon is NOT the place to store information on the world's books!

This Brewster Kahle, isn't he still working at Amazon-owned Alexa?

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Re:Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library by gojomo on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @04:29AM (#34716)

No. Kahle co-founded Alexa in 1996, which was sold to Amazon in 1999. Now, he leads the independent non-profit Internet Archive.

- Gordon (who works at the Internet Archive but is speaking only for himself here)

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Re:Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library by Tichy on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @05:39AM (#34725)

Amazing - he went from utlra-evil to ultra-saint?

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Re:Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library by aston on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @09:12AM (#34742)

Alexa's the app that grabbed pages for the Internet Archive. So he was saintly all along.

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Re:Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library by Tichy on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @10:24AM (#34756)

I thought it is the Amazon Spyware, sorry for the confusion.

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Re:Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library by jward on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @03:30AM (#34958)

It's spyware with an altruistic motive. In Founders at Work the guy touched briefly on the ethics behind it and drawing the line.

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