I admit I spent more time looking at the image than reading the article, wondering why it was necessary to create a fake set of laptop stickers over top of the original stickers. Was it because the original included stickers like 'hacker' and 'rock against war'? No, the fake layer "includes open source projects that began on institutions of higher education" and is intended to illustrate Apereo executive director Patrick Masson's argument that "what's needed now is an open source renaissance for higher education - one that restores community-built infrastructure, institutional agency, and academic autonomy to the center of the educational enterprise." I'm not going to dispute the objective, not the origin story for the applications illustrated, except to point out that some were build in spite of the organization where they originated, not because of it, and that open source authors have long had to work against the institution's desire to keep the tech in-house, to spin it off commercially, or at the very least, to community-source it. Meanwhile, I think Masson's case might carry more weight if authored on an open source platform, not LinkedIn.
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