SC - OED

[Bonne of Traquair]

>
>So far as, the commersial aspects are concerned, a person can defend
>accumulation of wealth as opposed to knowledge shoudl be freely available 
>to
>all  forever. I am of the later thiought and nothing that anyone says will
>ewver change my mind. If a person is willing to learn then the sources of
>that knowledge should be made available without any restriction, cost, or
>opther incumberance immediately and without question.

My husband's been working on a dissertation, it may be published as a book 
someday. We hope he'll make a small profit from it (though not bloody 
likely).  Following your logic, he should skip all of that and just post it 
up on a website because it is a source of knowledge and should therefore be 
made available to anyone that wants it.  I don't think so.  And if he 
shouldn't why should the OED?

There's still millions of people using the copy at their public or 
university library.  A relatively inexpensive version is available for those 
who cannot wait until they are at the library or make a special trip. Heck, 
I just experimented: the reference librarian will read the definition over 
the phone for crying out loud, including spelling the words I needed 
spelled.  The OED is so available through any number of sources that 
whinging about it NOT being available on line is just silly.

Bonne


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