[GOAL] The Budapest Open Access Initiative and Budapest 2017

[Peter Murray-Rust]

I would support that view (and also acknowledge past funding from OSF). To
avoid confusion, note that OSI has been renamed to OSF (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Foundations )


On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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