Re: [school-discuss] [Fwd: (LOSS, Mr Doug) Britannica Technical Support [No Ticket]]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

Cameron Miller wrote:

> If there is a non-proprietary project of encyclopedia software created
> via the port, ala mozilla and openoffice.org, then it could be a good
> thing.  But if they simply want to stick with only a proprietary
> product, they will get no help from me, and probably no help from many
> other folks.
>
> If their new product is in Java, it should work cross platform anyway.
>
> Strange that it would take them till 2003 to implement new software to
> display and search their encyclopedia data.  I would think updating and
> correcting the encyclopedia contents itself would be the real time consumer.

Before this gets too far out of hand, I should probably say that Britannica's
primary focus is their online encyclopedia, which I believe is subscription-based.
That's probably the best way to address the question of encyclopedia software for
Linux, as it's available to any system via the WWW.  The question of the java
software port would only apply to non-internetted, CD-ROM-equipped systems.

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