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"McNealy made it clear that possibilities in open-source education go far beyond textbooks. Before long, he claimed, the whole bloated, expensive, lecture-based higher education system will face the first challenge to its very existence: open-source, online higher education that costs a fraction of four years at Harvard—but is good enough for employers who want a college graduate. 'Universities will be forced to decide what they are. You know, are they going to be football teams with libraries attached?' McNealy asked. 'That's what a lot of them are now.'"