Academic journals, thousands of them. If free access to all knowledge
is our goal, freeing the journals is a major step towards there. I
don't know what Open access or Wikiversity might impact the process of
knowledge generation in the future, but I know the academy was/is the
most important part in the process. Though I wonder if a million
dollars is enough :P
Another thing I have in mind, albeit maybe off-topic, is the
digitization public domain works. Not only text (which is what Project
Gutenberg is doing), but books, documents, photos, paintings,
pictures, recordings etc. Forget about copyrighted stuff, there are a
lot of goodies without copyright but I can't access them simply
because I am not sitting next to them.
--Lorenzarius
On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you
would like to see made free, works that we are not doing a good job of
generating free replacements for, works that could in theory be
purchased and freed.
Dream big. Imagine there existed a budget of $100 million to purchase
copyrights to be made available under a free license. What would you
like to see purchased and released under a free license?
Photos libraries? textbooks? newspaper archives? Be bold, be specific,
be general, brainstorm, have fun with it.
I was recently asked this question by someone who is potentially in a
position to make this happen, and he wanted to know what we need, what
we dream of, that we can't accomplish on our own, or that we would
expect to take a long time to accomplish on our own.
--Jimbo
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