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alexey-salmin ◴[] No.41897153[source]
A genuine question to commenters asking to "put a grownup in charge of the thing" and saying that "Kahle shouldn't be running things": he built the thing, why exactly he can't run it the way he sees fit?
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et-al ◴[] No.41897298[source]
He is. But at the cost of the greater good.

Most of us care mainly about the Wayback Machine and archiving webpages; not borrowing books still under copyright and fighting publishers.

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TZubiri ◴[] No.41897357[source]
Speak for yourself, the internet archive successfully increased its scope and made creative contributions to case law (although it lost at the appeals court)
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