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1. Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 13:02:33 EST Baldur Bjarnason

   "To combat soaring textbook costs, look to an open-source approach"

   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/to-combat-soaring-textbook-costs-look-to-an-open-source-approach/article37477566/

   1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2018 13:14:16 EST Adam

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      @baldur Yes! Open source/open access texts and journals need to be more popular. There was a big push for this from student organizations when I worked for one several years back. The biggest push back from academics and gov'ts was a perception that open source was somehow inferior, as though it was just some random guy publishing a textbook, rather than fellow academics who just happened to value open access to information.