things that make you go hmmph!
First is the interesting initiative on the part of..... Nintendo??? Who are in:
" agreement with wireless Internet provider Wayport to set up free access to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in almost 6,000 McDonald's. The deal will allow Nintendo DS owners to walk into a McDonald's and play Wi-Fi-enabled games with others on the service, whether they are in the building or around the world. There will be no setup required--users simply launch a game that supports Wi-Fi, and play against others while sucking down shakes"
and then secondly and no less interesting is a statement of the world today described by what the people at Google have in store for us now as they look to launch:
"Google Print enables users to look for scanned books from libraries on the internet".
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"The move comes ahead of steps by the European commission and EU member states who also plan to set up their own European digital library".
Now the European Union is pissed because they say it will offer a:
"crushing domination of America in the definition of the idea that future generations will have of the world".
Its just too bad as if Google wasn't in enough hot water from:
"Google came under fire in the US and UK as it was scanning not only library books upon consent by publishers, but also works which are under copyright.
Last August, the scanning had to be stopped after a group representing more than 8000 authors filed a lawsuit against Google, arguing that the digitising of library books represents a severe violation of copyright law".
Ahhh the politics in the struggles of the concept of "OPEN SOURCE".
" agreement with wireless Internet provider Wayport to set up free access to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in almost 6,000 McDonald's. The deal will allow Nintendo DS owners to walk into a McDonald's and play Wi-Fi-enabled games with others on the service, whether they are in the building or around the world. There will be no setup required--users simply launch a game that supports Wi-Fi, and play against others while sucking down shakes"
and then secondly and no less interesting is a statement of the world today described by what the people at Google have in store for us now as they look to launch:
"Google Print enables users to look for scanned books from libraries on the internet".
-
"The move comes ahead of steps by the European commission and EU member states who also plan to set up their own European digital library".
Now the European Union is pissed because they say it will offer a:
"crushing domination of America in the definition of the idea that future generations will have of the world".
Its just too bad as if Google wasn't in enough hot water from:
"Google came under fire in the US and UK as it was scanning not only library books upon consent by publishers, but also works which are under copyright.
Last August, the scanning had to be stopped after a group representing more than 8000 authors filed a lawsuit against Google, arguing that the digitising of library books represents a severe violation of copyright law".
Ahhh the politics in the struggles of the concept of "OPEN SOURCE".
