Yesterday OEN reported on a bill introduced by Senator Durbin which mandates everything funded by the National Science Foundation must be open. Mark Guzdial has a post pushing back against the bill. From the post:
Under this bill, a commercial publisher can’t put good, well-assessed curricula in a textbook and then disseminate it via a salesperson and bookstore distribution network. How does one get high-quality, sustainable change if you can’t ever pay authors, salespeople, bookstores, and publishers?
