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by knob 237 days ago
Thank you to Mr Greg Newby for this project. RIP
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Newby did an enormous amount to help Project Gutenberg, but he was not its CEO or founder. Probably if you want to thank one person for the project it should be Michael Hart (PBUH). As WP explains:

> Newby got involved with Project Gutenberg in 1991 or 1992, became friends with founder Michael S. Hart, and was "undoubtedly the most consequential volunteer", according to a scholar writing about the history of the project.[10][21] In 2000 or 2001, Newby formed the associated nonprofit organization, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, and became its director and CEO.[10][22][2] He also worked to integrate Distributed Proofreaders into the project.[21] He was a founding trustee of the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation at its formation in July 2006.[23][24] He led improvements to the technology platform underlying Project Gutenberg[25] and navigated challenges related to the copyright status of books in different countries.[26]

Your citation appears to directly contradict your argument. How did this happen?
My citation explains that Michael Hart was the founder of PG, and the foundation that Newby headed didn't even exist until 02000. Newby would never in his life have wanted people to think that he had founded PG!

I've edited my comment above to make it clearer what its central argument is, since you seem to have misunderstood either the argument or the quote.

Sad that my first thought was "AI".
Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.
I do not think that GP's comment was meant that way. GP simply wanted to clear up a misunderstanding that was apparently created by the renaming of this thread to "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg, has died", which has been undone since. I am sure GP did not mean to detract from Greg Newby's contributions to the project.
I'm generally pretty good at figuring out even the most abstruse jokes, but not getting this one. Care to explain?
It wasn't that abstruse 15 years ago.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kanye-interrupts-imma-let-you...

The difference, in my view, is that Taylor Swift wasn't being incorrectly given credit for Beyoncé's video.

ok yeah I knew the reference I just wasn't getting how they thought it applied here.
At one point this morning, this thread was about 50% posts by someone repeatedly pointing out that it wasn't the founder of Project Gutenberg who had passed away and being maybe a little precious about writing their dates with a leading zero.

Imo, it was a valid criticism.

On the award of her Grammy, Kanye West grabbed the microphone and said this to Taylor Swift. I think Newby is Swift in this analogy.

Edit: MTV Video Music Award, not Grammy.

Wow I can’t believe this happened!
I can't tell if sarcasm, but he was very drunk, and it became one of his first big scandals. He's had so many more after that it pales in comparison.
Just wait until you find out who won the US presidential election.