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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."

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