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Dear all, I think there is a good difference between non-profit and profit organisations. I feel used when someone else makes profit on my stuff. And our commodity is knowledge, which should be free. However, I know how e.g. Wikipedia keeps struggling, even though it’s the most famous non-profit knowledge sharing platform. Perhaps we need voluntary idealists (many of them or few with big pockets) and long-minded governments to finance the effort in a sustained manner. But, I’m still using both academia.edu<http://academia.edu> & researchgate.net<http://researchgate.net> to share my research as they seem to serve my aspiration to share knowledge freely in the point of view of those seeking it. I also use Zotero (https://www.zotero.org) all the time, and it works great - although I don’t know how they keep their costs covered. Kind regards, Salu Ylirisku Associate Professor SDU Design, Kolding Denmark On 06 Feb 2016, at 00:39, Filippo Salustri <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: On 27 January 2016 at 18:06, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: When it comes to Fil’s views, I disagree. When you say that Academia should operate as a Yunus-style social business, you are indeed saying that they should not make money. Well, yes & no. A social business "makes" money, but they use that money only to pay employees and maintain and grow the business. And that's *exactly* how I believe *every* company should be run, because I think "money" is one of the worst ideas humans have ever had. ...but then again, I'm weird. And that's also well beyond the scope of this thread. More on topic: I would argue that to preserve the integrity of academe, we should stay as far as possible from circumstances where money may sway decisions against evidence and rational thought. As such, I would suggest that academe as a microcosm should maintain itself wherever possible in the most financially... neutral? way possible. \V/_ /fas *Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.* Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------