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Stephen Downes

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The main feature of this story - which for some unknown reason is written in a flippant and condescending style despite appearing in the Times - is that a major news outlet is admitting that corporate entities would quite deliberately set out to destroy a humanitarian project designed to make knowledge and learning accessible to everyone in the world. People ask me why there is an 'anti-corporate bias' in my work; this is why.

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