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Problem with Open Textbooks: They are Free

http://www.ezran.org/blog/2009/03/problem-with-open-textbooks-they-are-free/

by ez • 17 years ago

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jcl• 17 years ago

...just a few weeks ago CK12 and the State of Virginia launched the first ever open Text Book...

Really? What about all the stuff on Wikibooks? (http://en.wikibooks.org)

ez• 17 years ago

They are all books, but not text books approved for classroom teaching yet. This is the first open textbook approved by a US state.

ensignavenger2• 17 years ago

Certified by the State or not, they are still open textbooks.

ensignavenger2• 17 years ago

"Even Microsoft certified open source software to run on it’s platform."

They've done a lot more than that- they actually release open source software.

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