SC - online OED troubles

[Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg]

That story "The Professor and the Madman" appeared in a recent Smithsonian
magazine.
Raoghnailt Marie Béatrix de la Barbe
(Laura E. Barbee-Rygg)
rygbee at montana.com
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From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
To: <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 5:28 a.m.
Subject: Re: SC - online OED troubles


> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> >
> > Partially I happen to agree with you, Ras. This largely looks like a
> > corporate move to both seed the market and protect an extablished cash
cow.
> >
> > I also think you have to grant them the right to make a profit on their
> > honest labors.
>
> The cry echoes from the walls of Adamantius' book-filled, paper-stacked
> apartment: Where the h&*$'s that book _now_??? I just had it!
>
> Well, I can't find the unfavorable thing (unfavorable being my new
> generic cussword; I got tired of expletive deleted), but an interesting
> view of the compilation of the OED can be found in the recent
> non-fictional (if somewhat sensationalized) "The Professor and the
> Madman", author unknown as I can't find the unfavorable thing. Doubtless
> someone will do some kind of web search or check with Amazon and come up
> with the info in about four seconds. Its main subject matter of a
> massive academic project carried on by mail between the man chosen to
> lead the team who did the reading, compilation, editing and collating of
> the OED and, unbeknownst to the editor, a particularly well-read inmate
> in an asylum for the criminally insane, is in many ways _less_
> interesting than the story of the OED itself, with its various pitfalls,
> dead ends, rebirths and changes of leadership on an effort that took
> hundreds of people something like eighty years to complete.
>
> No, the OED is not just a book, folks, and while some of the copyright
> laws and other restrictions might be seen as aptly applied, any argument
> that even sounds like trivializing it as "just a book, what's the big
> deal" (an attidude that probably creeps in more when we get to talking
> about the CD-ROM) is almost predestined to be flawed. Not that either
> Ras or Stefan has done this, of course.
>
> > Stefan (who can be just as opinionated as some folks here)
>
> I dunno, are there opinionated folks here? I hadn't noticed! Well, if
> you'll excuse me, I'm off to attend my latest Forensic Assertiveness
> Training Class.
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
>
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