Sun, 22 Sep 2002
MIT Puts Everything Online For Free
Congratulations are in order to MIT for bringing to fruition a project that has been talked about for a while now. That project will put virtually all of MIT's educational materials online over the next ten years. [bbc technology]
MIT staff point out that if this initiative is successful, and other institutions follow, it will put the net back on track towards its original goal of sharing information and knowledge around the world, rather than selling CDs and t-shirts.
And that's a worthy cause!
One has to wonder whether Philip Greenspun had anything to do with this and if so, what role he played. He's certainly been championing this kind of publishing for years via his own sites and books.
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