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Yes Aaron was cool. Both were Creative Commons connected. I worked most w Aaron though on openlibrary.org

You think MIT wipp ever do justice to Aaron or will they just coopt his name eventually and act like that makes it all better?
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Electric Sheep 1y ago

I knew of Aaron's CC connections, but as I say, I never had the pleasure and sadness of learning about Bassel until seeing your post.

In my experience, modern institutions don't admit their mistakes. But if Aaron's dream (and mine) of wresting control of scholarship away from corporatists and their professional-managerial lackeys is ever successful, then we might finally get justice for his memory.

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rejon 1y ago

amazing

btw there is not much issue w access outside of usa, particularly china thanks to scihub :)

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Electric Sheep 1y ago

True that. I recently discovered this project;

https://annas-archive.org/faq

In many ways we are winning. But the scholars are still labouring in the academic sweatshops, and that too needs to change.

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rejon 1y ago

Good point