[FC-discuss] Free Thesis Project Released Today

[Matthew Z]

On 5/4/07, Crosbie Fitch <crosbie at cyberspaceengineers.org> wrote:
>
> > From: rob at robmyers.org
> > Well they may be restricted by publication requirements or college
> > policy. But if not then this is indefensible.
>
> It's indefensible ANYWAY. It's indefensible for a university to interfere
> with the ability of its students to disseminate their discoveries,
> creations, research, and knowledge to the public (their peers today and
> tomorrow).
>
> It used to be the case that the university had a hard time trying to
> persuade students to PUBLISH their discoveries and knowledge for the
> benefit
> of mankind rather than to hoard them for themselves.
>
> And now we find that the universities have become corrupted to hoard their
> students' work in precisely the way they had previously admonished*.


haha, sounds like a case of someone finally getting the cook to make creme
brules and then selfishly hoarding and devouring them in isolation.
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