While the ending sentiment is rather dramatic, since I believe it should not be a matter of avoiding what is wrong (the "wrong" being in this case the "enemy" proponents of the "closed source space"), but instead it's about focusing on creating something that we do want or that we do believe is effective, I do believe in a conversation or context for academia that includes a freeing up of all the tools needed to learn and teach - tools both technologically based and otherwise.
Working towards a goal of academia supported within a universe of availability, although potentially idealistic, must be a step in the right direction. Education, information, learning, evolving - these things can only flourish most effectively and profoundly within a world of limitless generosity.
So, while this concept of "open source" might be more closely associated with the internet and its universe, and maybe more likely to occur there, since it is a universe that is much less controlled in a lot of ways than the reality we find ourselves in everyday, how powerful is the realization that this could spill over beyond cyberspace and into the space of the teacher, the student, and the academic institution.
What's possible in total "open source" reality?
