Collaborative Online Textbook Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @08:03AM from the this-assumes-you-actually-want-to-learn dept.

rocketjam writes "OpenTextBook.org is a new project to create a free, open text book 'collaboratively written by anyone on the internet', using a Creative Commons license. Citing the free software development model and the philosophy that underlies much of that effort, OpenTextBook.org's introduction says this philosophy should apply 'at its most basic to the learning of science.' They hope the project will help to counter the current governmental trend of strengthening the scope, duration and rights of intellectual property owners while cutting back on the fair use rights of individuals. The current state of the project is available as a daily snapshot pdf file which contains the introduction to the project and 9 chapters mostly covering math at this time."

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Re:anon internet users being trusted to teach??? by mindaktiviti · 2004-06-15 08:22 · Score: 0, Troll

2. The black panthers were a group of law abiding, fun loving people that were mercilessly harassed by the establishment.

This has cointelpro written all over it.
Re:Soviet Textbooks by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-15 08:24 · Score: 0, Troll

In Soviet Russia textbooks liberate YOU.