[SGVLUG] The right to read... and today's students

[matti]

Do you recall Stallman's "The Right to Read"?
( Feb 1997 in Communications of the ACM )

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Well, now we see what he predicting occurring more and more
frequently:

September 3, 2012
With 'Access Codes,' Textbook Pricing Gets More Complicated Than Ever

https://chronicle.com/article/What-Is-an-Access-Code-Worth-/134048/

http://lukethomas.com/the-textbook-industry-greed-its-getting-worse/