@kibi @staticsafe Depends on the university, surely?

@kibi @staticsafe

For MIT it wasn't that Swartz was just proposing open access as an abstract idea or theoretical possibility as many others were doing at the time. He was advocating that students take direct action to pull down the barriers of privileged knowledge. That was a very direct threat to their income, and in that type of situation institutions don't just want to destroy the career of an individual they also want to make an example of them so that others will be deterred from following.