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Open Access Open Knowledge

Code for Thought

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Open Access Is a Rear View Mirror Technology

This is not exactly what you envisaged when you came up with the open access initiative. The PDF format itself was actually derived from a protocol which had been invented to unify the relationship of computers and printers it just says it can be printed anyplace now. This my children and the next couple generations who have been probably much more attuned to really digital documents are going to say PDF is complete nonsense.

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