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Elsevier and the arms business

Posted on 25 March 2007 by Rick Mason

Reed Elsevier, the European publishing corporation behind over 15,000 journals, is being challenged by one of them, The Lancet, in regards to its commercial involvement in the arms trade. This connects to libraries in several ways: subscriptions to many print … Continue reading →

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Eudora to be based on Thunderbird

Posted on 11 October 2006 by Rick Mason

In the news today: Eudora, the e-mail client that has been around since the late 1980’s, will soon be based on the Mozilla Thunderbird source and released as an open-source project. The reason behind this is that Qualcomm, the owner … Continue reading →

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