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Brian Lamb,
Abject,
Jul 04, 2011
Brian Lamb nicely documents the corporate sector's assault on education and open content (and, I might add, everything else): "I think about Mr. Murdoch’s contribution to the art of journalism, and have to ask what exactly his contribution to the field of education might look like? ... Access to great symphonies? Gee, how could that be possible without the benign assistance multi-national conglomerates raking in billions of profits? The lectures of Hawking? If only we could view them in the future, sometime after Mr. Murdoch has secured the long-term exposure of his investment plan. And us yokels in the education sector will never figure out how to share a lesson plan, not until we bust the teacher’s unions and sign an assured distribution contract with a serious content provider… So when I grumble about an open educational discourse that “favours†commercial use, it’s because I am probably thinking about how that aligns with the interests of Rupert Murdoch and his wacky pals." Exactly my thinking.
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