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What should Microsoft do with mothballed Encarta content?
- asciilifeform 18y agoIt and all of the human effort that went into it will vanish forever into the ether. That is the customary fate of shuttered projects in this age of infinitely stretchable copyrights. How marvelously efficient free-market competition is!
- Tangurena 18y agoThe information will be locked up. And some will continue to be sold, like Corbis' photos. Nothing will be given away. Far too much of this happens with sites. Think of it as a version of "taking your ball and going home." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539921 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539921