Southpinellas: SPC tech professor gives his textbooks for free: "Basham views the price of learning Cisco as a manifestation of class and status. Information shouldn't be accessible only to the well-off, he said.

The folks at lulu.com understand.

'It's the open source philosophy,' said Stephen Fraser, spokesperson for lulu.com. 'Open source is sort of a computer geek thing, but a lot of academics share this conviction that hoarding knowledge does nobody any good. The best way to leverage knowledge is to share it.'

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