Posted by: Anonymous
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on August 29, 2008 04:17 PM
Because markup is fluff and creates an obesity problem. It is almost trivial in this day and age, but it wasn't in the 70's when the Project Gutenberg was born.
In those days, when you weren't around obviously, you would have to pay an arm and a leg to AT&T for the privilege of making a long distance phone call with a 300 baud modem that would take 10 minutes to download a 25Kb file. In fact, that's why the zip format came into being, it was a way to reduce your phone bill costs up to one-tenth of those hard earned greenbacks. It was also one of the best examples of why you may need to reverse engineer a format in order to escape a technological monopoly. PK-Zip Inc. btw survived without buying the country legistator bodies to issue protectionist laws that protect their revenue.
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Re: Make etexts pretty with GutenMark
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 190.25.164.67] on August 29, 2008 04:17 PMIn those days, when you weren't around obviously, you would have to pay an arm and a leg to AT&T for the privilege of making a long distance phone call with a 300 baud modem that would take 10 minutes to download a 25Kb file. In fact, that's why the zip format came into being, it was a way to reduce your phone bill costs up to one-tenth of those hard earned greenbacks. It was also one of the best examples of why you may need to reverse engineer a format in order to escape a technological monopoly. PK-Zip Inc. btw survived without buying the country legistator bodies to issue protectionist laws that protect their revenue.
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