When his boys wanted to learn about paper airplanes, he bought them 50 books. No, as an incorrigible capitalist, I'm not calling for the confiscation of Gates' wealth or Myhrvold's. Authors may decide to forfeit some or all of the royalties for the 'copies' of their works that are to be used in a library. Let's hope that changes. T he big irony is that, as noted elsewhere on this Web site , TeleRead could actually be very good for businesses, including Microsoft.
Few corporations have as much a stake in e-forms.
Here's a chance for Gates and Myhrvold to do both well and good. This little essay first appeared on the TeleRead Home Page in August 1998. So far I haven't heard directly from Bill Gates or Nathan Myhrvold, and Microsoft has not endorsed TeleRead.