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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
There's nothing remotely hypocritical about being proud of having contributed to the early development of a service but finding it necessary to stop being one of those providers. It is rather unlikely the University in question has infinite resources, deciding that the resources they do have are best used elsewhere now that there are several alternatives to the service they helped initiate is not hypocritical or lazy. A gracious user would thank them for their previous service, not insult them for having decided they need to stop.
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In a way you are right. I might have perhaps expressed my thanks as well as my disappointment.
And yet: It was a library! You don't just shut down a library and throw away the books. Find someone else willing to put them on their servers, or at least publish a warning that you are planning to shut down so that people can download the books before that. If someone responsible cared for the library, they would have done
something to save it, even if it had to be shut down. So I still think that statement is hypocritical.