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      1. Instructive example from @martin_eve on how universities' position within neoliberal marketplaces prevents them from engaging with new open alternatives martineve.com/2018/06/03/transparency-agendas-are-used-to-legislate-against-consortial-open-access-models/
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      Within university libraries, we see the same thing w/r/t open-source software communities. Why would pay to be part of a community when the product - the software - will ultimately be available gratis at the end of development?
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    'Contributing value to a community' and 'Contributing to overall societal good' are not quantifiable metrics for a systems tender in the neoliberal academy.