[murgindrag]

Author of Open edX left a long time ago due to corruption at edX / MIT. See commit log for who built the platform. See press releases for who got the credit. MIT promised all open courses, all open platform, all open everything.

The $800M will be used to line the pockets of privileged MIT professors. It will be as effective at closing equity gaps as supply-side (trickle-down) economics. 60% will go to overhead, which will fund faculty clubs and yachts. From there, a ton will go into generous salaries and benefits packages. And so on down the line.

I am willing to bet that this will be equivalent to giving maybe $10M to an HBCU, in terms of benefits to the poor.