The End Of Software - Anibal's Blog

I was already surprised with OpenCourseWare, initiative to freely distribute faculty course contents. E.g. from MIT Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare.(Don't need to mention about the contents quality)

Now MIT is releasing for free all the contents. 

"If there were any doubt that open access publishing was setting off a bit of a power struggle, a decision made last week by the MIT faculty should put it to rest. Although most commercial academic publishers require that the authors of the works they publish sign all copyrights over to the journal, Congress recently mandated that all researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health retain the right to freely distribute their works one year after publication (several foundations have similar requirements). Since then, some publishers started fighting the trend, and a few members of Congress are reconsidering the mandate. Now, in a move that will undoubtedly redraw the battle lines, the faculty of MIT have unanimously voted to make any publications they produce open access."

Source: ArsTechnica, "MIT to make all faculty publications open access".

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