From the Realm of Necessity to the Realm of Freedom, One Webserver at a Time...

[Kelley Walker]

well, that breathless press release should have just been submitted to lbo 
under the heading peter k. offered recently: commodify your dissent.

At 10:42 PM 5/10/01 -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
>GATE EXCLUSIVE--MIT's OpenCourseWare Plan Fires The First Real Shot~
>
>By Hal Plotkin, Special to SF Gate
>
>"OpenCourseWare looks counter-intuitive in a market driven world," MIT's 
>Vest said when he signed on to the new plan. "It goes against the grain of 
>current material values. But it really is consistent with what I believe 
>is the best about MIT. It expresses our belief in the way education can be 
>advanced -- by constantly widening access to information and by inspiring 
>others to participate." <...>