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Aaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay walls. "The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations," he once wrote. The Obama administration just granted his wish -- at least as it pertains to research funded by taxpayers. The White House directed federal agencies on Friday to make the results of federally-funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication.
White House Grants Aaron Swartz's Wish: Taxpayer-Funded Research Will Be Free
Wikipedia:SOPA initiative/Learn more From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < Wikipedia:SOPA initiative Jump to: navigation , search Professor Clay Shirky explained in this 14 minute talk how SOPA and PIPA would damage the kind of commons-based peer production that makes Wikipedia possible. Results of the blackout, and looking ahead