Totally agree.<p>Well I would say that Alexandra Elbakyan of Sci-Hub fame is in the vanguard in this respect. I&#x27;m not making an equivalence here because Stallman repurposed the tool that is copyright to make copyleft to underpin free software legally whereas Elbakyan is an out and out pirate as far as the law goes.<p>I have used Sci-Hub and gen.lib.rus.ec countless times already even though I attend a &quot;developed-world&quot; academic institution and have access to a lot of the material that is shared on those sites. Sometimes it&#x27;s a simple matter of convenience, sometimes I my institution does not have the required subscription.<p>I suppose the Open Access model in the academic publishing world is the ideological equivalent to what Stallman was a part of building in the software world but it seems to be playing out a lot differently. In the wider world of literature I couldn&#x27;t say.