First of all, I cannot speak for OCLC on this, but I can contribute an
observation:
Anyone who has had dealings with both organizations would understand
that in the completely hypothetical circumstance that both
organizations wanted to do something like this on day one, it would
still take an rather long time to actually do the deed.
Peace and love, everybody!
Eric
On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> K.G. Schneider wrote:
>
>> For the record, I've clarified this with OCLC itself. It's
>> exactly as Terry Weese says.
>
> If that is so, why don't OCLC themselves give their database away
> to the Open Library?
>
>
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars_at_aronsson.se)
> Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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Received on Thu Feb 07 2008 - 11:26:37 EST