Touche’. Though I would like to assert that I in no way intended to “ding” Google. It is my opinion that Google is merely filling a necessary intellectual void. I feel that the digitization of all books is not only necessary, but inevitable. In a perfect world, it would have been a project for a newly created digital branch of the Library of Congress… but the world in which we live is far from perfect.
Ensuring the availability of the entirety of our cultural history for future generations should be of universal concern, and thus should have been a legislative issue.
That said, in true American fashion a corporation has stepped up to do the deed, and in the absence of prescient legislation, litigation results.

My fear at this point is censorship… see today’s /. post (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/28/1613214) wherein Google plans to remove “inappropriate” books from their digital library. I don’t think I’m alone in stating I didn’t like my government, school, pastor, or parents telling me what was “appropriate” to read… and I really don’t like it when a multinational corporation presumes to do the same.

Thanks for your comment!

Cheers,
Matt

At the link you cite, it currently says “You can make money without doing evil. ”

See also – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

A motto of “Do No Evil” is not only impractical, it is impossible. To do /anything/ is to risk to some evil. So, dinging a company for not living up to it (especially a company that has not adopted your version of their motto) is doubly fallacious and a little silly.

Cheers