[GOAL] Re: On Aaron Swartz's martyrdom

[Dana Roth]

Isn't one of the main points of civil disobedience ... acceptance of the legal consequences ... as a way to bring public pressure to make changes ??

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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Subbiah Arunachalam
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:36 PM
To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: [GOAL] On Aaron Swartz's martyrdom



Friends:

Here are two commentaries on why knowledge must be free by two of my colleagues at the Centre for Internet and and Society. One is a video interview and the other is in plain text. Both will be of interest to anyone interested in openness.

<http://newsclick.in/international/aaron-swartz-first-martyr-free-information-movement>   [video]

<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/dml-central-jan-24-2013-nishant-shah-remembering-aaron-swartz-taking-up-the-fight>

Unfortunately, most science managers in India continue to support the corporate publishers who privatize public knowledge with no thought to the thousands of students, teachers and researchers of India. Not even the leftists in India have raised this issue so far.  The least we can do is to mandate open access to publications resulting from all publicly funded research.

Arun

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