“Oh, now I’m scared” “NOT!!”

The famous (read: infamous) Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) is angry. Angry at Nature (the journal)…

Despite this high reputation EB doesn’t manage to formulate an answer within a normal period of time, to the Nature article that stated that the free and public domain encyclopedia Wikipedia and the ($70 a year) EB were not that bad at all. Both of them.

Now it has hit back with a 20 pages (childish) answer, after a 3 month wait! They had to think about it I guess.

All I want is an accurate and from-this-world encyclopedia that is full of subjects old and new times. Not EB, I am afraid.

You know why I hate EB?

Their pedlars bugged me at whatever event or fair I was, the past 20+ years. I just didn’t matter what kind a fair it was: ideal home exhibition, computer fairs, collectors fairs, stamp collectors fairs (that’s different), (book) printers fairs, security fairs, holiday fairs and so I can continue. First the paper ones, then the I don’t know how many cd’s electronic version and now the online version.
Get lost!

But you know what is so significant? Wikipedia has an medium long article on the EB, but if you search the EB Online for Wikipedia you get no result.

I know enough…

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