{"id":1538,"date":"2008-02-25T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/25\/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T13:06:41","slug":"microsoft-dupes-library-of-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Dupes Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has paid the Library of Congress a huge bribe so that they will adopt some of their software, and use hardware running Vista in public areas.  This is, of course, a travesty.  As Boing Boing says, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/20\/library-of-congress-1.html\">&#8220;Library of Congress sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere $3 mil&#8221;<\/a> &#8230; You know this is George Bush&#8217;s fault.<!--more-->For Microsoft&#8217;s part, this is a move on Google (because it will involve a major search facility) and on The Gutenberg Project and all other open access publication projects (because this is a bald faced effort to control access to key, old, not copyrighted documents such as the United States Constitution).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Library officials said they plan to launch a series of new library search and viewing tools this year. As part of the program, new kiosks that highlight featured documents at the library will run on Microsoft Vista software.Microsoft Silverlight, a graphical browser plug-in, will help power the library&#8217;s new Web site, www.myloc.gov, where users will be able to access and personalize interactive materials.The technology debuted with the &#8220;Exploring the Early Americas&#8221; exhibition Dec. 13. The library plans to make new holdings interactive with the new program, including the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg Bible, the 1507 Waldseem ller World Map that first used the word &#8220;America&#8221; and original volumes from Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s personal library, said library spokesman Matt Raymond.&#8221;This is really a quantum leap for the library,&#8221; Raymond said.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcn.com\/print\/27_2\/45710-1.html\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who&#8217;s in charge of this place, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has paid the Library of Congress a huge bribe so that they will adopt some of their software, and use hardware running Vista in public areas. This is, of course, a travesty. As Boing Boing says, &#8220;Library of Congress sells itself out to Microsoft for a mere $3 mil&#8221; &#8230; You know this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/microsoft-dupes-library-of-con\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Dupes Library of Congress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-oO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}