I asked this (according the question of the blogging contest at //www.openaccessday.org ) and Peter answered by mail:
The short answer is that I started providing OA to my own work, and advocating it for other work, before I knew what "it" was and before I heard about "it" from others.
For details, see my Richard Poynder interview from last year, pp. 23ff.
//ia310134.us.archive.org/1/items/The_Basement_Interviews/Suber.pdf
Unfortunatley we don't have a collection of Open Access quotations (at Wikiquote I only found //en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom ) but here is a great quote from Suber himself:
The more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters.
//ur1.ca/8ow
The short answer is that I started providing OA to my own work, and advocating it for other work, before I knew what "it" was and before I heard about "it" from others.
For details, see my Richard Poynder interview from last year, pp. 23ff.
//ia310134.us.archive.org/1/items/The_Basement_Interviews/Suber.pdf
Unfortunatley we don't have a collection of Open Access quotations (at Wikiquote I only found //en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom ) but here is a great quote from Suber himself:
The more knowledge matters, the more OA to that knowledge matters.
//ur1.ca/8ow
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008, 00:32 - Rubrik: Open Access
