[free-sklyarov] Dangers of eTextbooks

[Jon O .]

Humm:

#whois openebook.org

Whois Server Version 1.3
Registrant:
MICROSOFT (OPENEBOOK3-DOM)
   One Microsoft Way
   REDMOND, WA 98052
   US

   Domain Name: OPENEBOOK.ORG

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
      Conboy, Garth  (GC5065)  gc at SOFTBOOKPRESS.COM
      SoftBook Press, Inc.
      7745 Herschel Ave.
      La Jolla , CA 92037
      619-551-4949 (FAX) 619-454-8502

   Record last updated on 07-Feb-2001.
   Record expires on 05-Oct-2002.
   Record created on 05-Oct-1998.
   Database last updated on 7-Aug-2001 07:49:00 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   TROLL.SOFTBOOKPRESS.COM      208.211.82.2
   AUTH50.NS.UU.NET             198.6.1.161



Troll is right:
SOFTBOOKPRESS.COM owned by MS?





On 07-Aug-2001, J.E. Cripps wrote:
> 
> > eTextbooks that expire after one semester. The
> > publishers must love these
> 
> I remember Richard Stallman stating that textbooks should be free.
> Didn't quite appreciate that at the time.
> 
> 
> 
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