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So the IA should be forked; you can support the fork and people like me Brewster Kahle's original.

People who frequent libraries think CDL at retail prices is just; others that it is an end-run around publisher's rights.

But libraries pay so much for their limited-lending copies! Why isn't there any support for regional or global libraries? Publishers are like a syndicate but there's no opposing union so they run ramshod over the proletariat. Are libraries not good things? Beacons of culture and so forth? The IA clearly can't afford to fund CDL at library rates, but can't it get funding! Why won't the government step in and decree a federal library? Depending on geography, you're local library is probably already funded at the state and federal level.

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