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It is disappointing that KA launched their Computer Science program not long after making their website closed source[0]. Doubly disappointing because of open-education projects that were using the software platform to do free education projects in Brazil[1] and Portugal[2].

[0]: https://khanacademy.kilnhg.com/Auth/LogOn?ReturnUrl=/&nr... [1]: https://calenglishbr.appspot.com/ [2]: https://uc3m-ka.appspot.com/login?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fuc3m...

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Umm, I think it's all still open-sourced. It's just hosted at Github, which probably integrates it better into the open source community:

https://github.com/khan

They even make their ec2 instances open source!

It's really sad. They were never really concerned with being truly free & open. They just were "open" in the wishy-washy way that when you do anything online for free, you can call it open and get lots of support.

So why are these remarks getting downvoted? BTW, could someone provide links with more details, i.e. what was closed, this still appears pretty open: https://github.com/khan/khan-exercises

I think they're getting downvoted for being incorrect.

I can't find any info about KA moving to closed source.

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