<div dir="ltr">I would support that view (and also acknowledge past funding from OSF). To avoid confusion, note that OSI has been renamed to OSF (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations</a> )<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amsciforum@gmail.com" target="_blank">amsciforum@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span>It’s ironic that billionaire George Soros (who is less wealthy than billionaire Bill Gates but has done a lot more philanthropy, </span>both absolutely and proportionately) is today being notably <a href="https://www.facebook.com/anna.bayer.338/videos/10155503514384458/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,105,217)">vilified in a hate campaign</span></a> 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. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span>Soros’s Open Society Institute was also the one that founded and funded the <a href="http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,105,217)">Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) </span></a>that launched OA. (But I suspect that yet another US billionaire will find a way to <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/trump-s-paradigm-shift-may-derail-free-access-to-online-content-for-researchers-1.3126744" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,105,217)">trump</span></a> Orban’s odia with his own...)</span></p></div>
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