Great idea. Our body of scientific knowledge deserves to be both free (beer & speech) and open to all. There shouldn't be a significant cost to access it (apa

Great idea. Our body of scientific knowledge deserves to be both free (beer & speech) and open to all. There shouldn't be a significant cost to access it (apart from the education level). Our aim should be build our global, connected society on the basis of free, open and life long education. Sure this takes some capital cost to start. But the benefits could be massive: comparable to those realised when patents were first introduced. By freeing knowledge from its artificial shackles we'll enable a whole generation of advancement in the application of our science. Where there's a will, we will provide the way. It makes me think that people such as Bill Gates and William S. Dietrich II could do worse than to fund this sort of project and its obvious complement (a proper, free-distribution alternative to the academic publishers).