[BOAI] The Budapest Open Access Initiative and Budapest 2017

[Stevan Harnad]

It’s ironic that billionaire George Soros (who is less wealthy than
billionaire Bill Gates but has done a lot more philanthropy, both
absolutely and proportionately) is today being notably vilified in a hate
campaign <https://www.facebook.com/anna.bayer.338/videos/10155503514384458/>
by Hungary’s incipient dictator, Viktor Orban, who is expelling the Central
European University (founded by Soros, and the best university in Hungary)
while blaming its founder for Hungary’s ills.


Soros’s Open Society Institute was also the one that founded and
funded the Budapest
Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
<http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/>that
launched OA.  (But I suspect that yet another US billionaire will find a
way to trump
<https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/trump-s-paradigm-shift-may-derail-free-access-to-online-content-for-researchers-1.3126744>
Orban’s odia with his own...)
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