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It's interesting that they include the FSF, Internet Archive, Creative Commons, and Open Courseware among their "computer science" contributions. These are more political than scientific, although some of them did end up contributing massively to the development of computer science.

Now let's talk about some ways in which MIT hindered the development of computer science, including political hindrances.

1. Complicity in the persecution of Aaron Swartz (2011)

2. Anyone else?



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