<br>"Why academics, for example, are wiling to accept the bizarre<br>Â system in which they contribute to peer review journals for free,<br>Â sometimes even paying a publication fee, and then have their <br>Â institutions buy this work back from the printers at exorbitant<br>
 rates remains a mystery"<br><br><br>                             Yochai Benkler<br><br><br>     Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, <br>     and
faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.<br>Â Â Â Â Â <a href="http://www.benkler.org/Bio.html">http://www.benkler.org/Bio.html</a><br><br><br><br><br>Text excerpt from<br>"The Coase's Penguin: Linux and the nature of the Firm"<br>
<a href="http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html">http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html</a><br><br>