What should Microsoft do with mothballed Encarta content?

It and all of the human effort that went into it will vanish forever into the ether. That is the customary fate of shuttered projects in this age of infinitely stretchable copyrights.<p>How marvelously efficient free-market competition is!

The information will be locked up. And some will continue to be sold, like Corbis' photos. Nothing will be given away. Far too much of this happens with sites. Think of it as a version of "taking your ball and going home."<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539921" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=539921</a>