= What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web?
There's a problem here and the solution isn't obvious. It's a pity the battle against this kind of fraud will eventually justify, along with other abuses, a "Web police," which sadly is very far from the spirit in which the Web was created.
= How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web?
We now have a multilingual Internet. We have to build it up and ensure it's easy to access, which'll probably take a bit longer.
BARBARA GRIMES (Hawaii)
#Editor of Ethnologue: Languages of the World
The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages. A paper version and a CD-ROM are also available.
*Interview of August 18, 1998
= How did using the Internet change your professional life?
We have found the Internet to be useful, convenient, and supplementary to our work. Our main use of it is for e-mail. It is a convenient means of making information more widely available to a wider audience than the printed Ethnologue provides.