No recreational learning allowed
"Wikipedia is entirely free. And that freedom includes not just the ability of anyone to read it (a freedom denied by the scholarly journals in, say, jstor, which requires an expensive institutional subscription) but also—more remarkably—their freedom to use it."
From Roy Rosenzweig's "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the future of the past"
I hadn't used jstor, but as I've mentioned citing Wikipedia in anything for my current history class is an automatic fail, so I went to check out jstor. I was naive enough to think that the the only restiction on jstor would be the fact that only academic institutions can afford subscriptions, making it only available to students, but they've decided thats not restrictive enough, heres the other restrictions:
"Access to this resource is restricted to staff and students at the University of Canterbury, using their University usercode and password.
It may be searched and accessed only for the purpose of University teaching, study or research. A reasonable quantity of excerpts may be downloaded for this purpose.
Substantial subsets of data may not be created. Data may not be copied, sold or provided for any other commercial purpose. Data may not be provided to anyone who is not an authorized user." (from here)
Forget reseach for blog posts, writing Wikipedia articles or even just getting some information for interested non-student friends. While we've come along way from just having the slogan "information wants to be free" we're still not there yet.
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