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[News] [OSS] Universities 'Open-source' Course Material

Setting Learning Free

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| That refocus led MIT to a radical new proposition. In the words 
| of Anne Margulies, now executive director of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), 
| "They decided that the best way the Internet could be used to 
| fulfill that mission would be to give the materials away."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57775.html

Hopefully they will be using truly open formats. Check this one out:

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2834

"The position of Microsoft basically was that you should be able to pour a
spreadsheet which is known to have an off-by-one bug in its date counting
into OOXML and mark it as 'has a bug'."

It's not a bug. It's a 'standard', which Microsoft bribes people to accept.

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