By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Terry Freedman[Edit][Delete]: Free Market, February 2, 2006

[link: 7 Hits] Terry Freedman comments at length on my remark about "doing something good, not greedy." He writes, "why is selling content deemed to be not ok, whilst selling or, more accurately, renting your expertise to an employer is ok?... Why use such patronising and disparaging language about people whose only 'crime' is to try and earn an honest living in a different way than you do? More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Patreon and Twitter are right about freedom of speech
Ben Werdmuller, 2019/01/28
I think this is a truism that people would do well to keep in mind: "The mechanisms and legal machinations of freedom of speech aside, any community that allows intolerance to flourish will in itself become intolerant. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Ben Crowell: All Systems Go: The Newly Emerging Infrastructure to Support Free Books, Light and Matter December 19, 2005

Some good discussion of the movement toward free books (or 'open source books'), with references to standbys like textbookrevolution.org and lulu.com (which I intend to use in the near future), wikibooks, and more. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Robert Brumfield: Wikibooks to offer free eTexts for education, ESchool News November 2, 2005

Coverage in eSchool News of the Wikibooks project, a plan to provide free school textbooks. Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia comments, "I think that Wikibooks and projects like it will challenge licensed textbooks in the same way that Linux [the open-source computer operating system] and other free software and licensing models are challenging the software world". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. SA Mathieson: Open the Door to a Free Way of Working, The Guardian October 28, 2005

This is something Canada needs (and I would willingly work in such an institute, where I would likely be more comfortable): "A new Open Source Academy, supported with £1.3m from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, is aiming to tackle both fud (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and misplaced enthusiasm". More...