Gates unveils virtual Da Vinci notebook »
Posted By okitech 1 year, 11 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentMicrosoft Chairman Bill Gates showed off a virtual version of his own collection of Leonardo Da Vinci's scientific musings on Tuesday at the British Library as he unveiled the company's eagerly anticipated Windows Vista operating system.
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krayzdrayzor1 year, 11 months ago
Gates has stolen vast sections of human culture and experience. Corbis, a Gates' owned corp., bought the Bettman Archives then sunk the artifacts in a limestone well shaft; to be "preserved" for saftey's sake. When one considers that Otto Bettman fled Nazi Germany with the embryo of the archives to preserve what he fore saw as cultural genocide.
Gates' actions are morally reprehensible. Drastic legislation to take digitization of such treasures and apply a 95 year copyright on public domain materials has been lobbied for. Actions such as this is akin to kidnapping our shared culture and selling a body part back to us piece by piece.
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krayzdrayzor1 year, 11 months ago
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This is an abomination. All to tout MS's newest enterprise, whilest dangling our collective cultrual heritage in front of us.
This is not a Books topic it is A DO NO EVIL piece to be sure.
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