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gojomo
on July 17, 2007
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Aaron Swartz: Announcing the Open Library
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)
Tichy
on July 17, 2007
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Amazing - he went from utlra-evil to ultra-saint?
aston
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Alexa's the app that grabbed pages for the Internet Archive. So he was saintly all along.
Tichy
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I thought it is the Amazon Spyware, sorry for the confusion.
jward
on July 18, 2007
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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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- Gordon (who works at the Internet Archive but is speaking only for himself here)