I look at Project Gutenberg as the first example of the Neo-Industrial Revolution, in which any person can enter anything into a computer, and billions of computers users all over the world can have a copy tomorrow. I look at this completely differently than the Post-Industrial Revolution in which people want to do virtually no work, yet have monopoly power over all the products they can. Etexts are the first thing in the history of the world, besides air, that there is enough of for everyone to have all they want. It is going to shake things up more than you can imagine, which is why they are trying to pass laws all over the world to copyright everything, and for longer than a human lifetime. They can't stand the idea of a completely literate and educated public, even though they politicize that this is what they want.
Actions speak SO much more loudly than words.
ANY college or government could have done SO much more for Etext than Project Gutenberg has. . We have lived so long with Limited Distribution, virtually forever, that the paradigm change to Unlimited Distribution is a shift that most people cannot yet understand, or accept, either. Total geekspeak. . Mostly about what to do when your computer crashed, where the repair guys were, etc. I guess I was the first person who saw the Internet as something more than a place to swap information of an extremely narrow high-tech nature.