<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">My sincere</span> <span class="hps">condolences.<br><br><b>Baudouin</b><br></span></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/23 Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">One aspect of governance is access.<div>I learned today from Bytesforall of the death of Michael Hart - the Project Gutenberg man.</div>
<div>Below is the end of the article published by Bytesforall which I think originated as a Guardian obituary.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1998, Wired magazine named Hart to its "Wired 25," a list of people<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
around the world who were "actively, even hyperactively, inventing<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">tomorrow."<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">Hart had his critics. He was often disparaged by academics, who complained<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
of typographical and other errors in Project Gutenberg books. He was not<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">beloved in the traditional publishing world, which he often attacked for<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">profiting on the works of long-dead writers. He disapproved of U.S.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
copyright laws, which keep popular works out of the public domain for<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">decades after an author has died.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">Hart dismissed his critics' attacks.<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">"I'm not doing this to make the academic community happy," he told the<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">Chicago Tribune in 1999. He aimed to serve the masses. "I am a revolutionary<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
in this neo-industrial revolution. That's why they have trouble with me. How<br style="line-height: 1.22em;">can anyone be troubled by free information? "<br style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;">
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<div><br></div><div>Deirdre</div>-- <br><font color="#888888">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979<br>
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