Re: Slightly Off Topic: GPL'ed Encyclopedia ?

[Robert Soros <bobsoros yahoo com>]

--Soren Harward <soren@cinternet.net> wrote:
>
> Point well taken.  However, an "open information" system is highly
> problematic.  With software, "truth" is easy: the program either
works or

The holocaust never happened

> it doesn't.  With general information, maintianing what is the
"truth" is
> much more difficult.  The internet is the single biggest information
> resource available to man, and look at how much crap and
misinformation
> there is on it.

Every year 1.2 billion school kids use microsoft's encarta, people put
faith into what microsoft says is the truth, how much worse could we
do in this regard ? :)


> 
> This is *so* far off topic for GNOME that I suggest anyone interested
> in the thread continue it privately.
> 
> --
>  Soren Harward <soren@cinternet.net> | Windows DOES come with a tool
>  http://www.soren.cinternet.net/     | to restore a corrupt Registry.
>  Internet Information Systems Admin  |
>  Cinternet, Inc.  (513) 891-1228     | It's called FDISK.
> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Justin Ross wrote:

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