tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post2232285609458723717..comments2024-03-04T06:09:18.295+00:00Comments on open...: The True Begetter of Innovation is OpennessGlyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-73371430268256053662009-11-19T14:31:33.835+00:002009-11-19T14:31:33.835+00:00Many institutions limit access to their online inf...Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.Paper on Researchhttp://www.researchpaperspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-71875284214677268662009-02-24T09:11:00.000+00:002009-02-24T09:11:00.000+00:00I agree - it shows how much work remains to be don...I agree - it shows how much work remains to be done to get people to look at things in a new light.Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-91372200584068604302009-02-24T09:04:00.000+00:002009-02-24T09:04:00.000+00:00It's an insidious mindset, that infects even those...It's an insidious mindset, that infects even those who would remedy the malaise.<BR/><BR/>The author that discusses the benefit of freedom still talks in terms of 'granting control rights to researchers'.<BR/><BR/>Freedom is actually what we were all recognised to have as a natural right in the first place. This was then partly suspended by copyright and patent to privilege printers and industrialists.<BR/><BR/>I'd suggest to the author that it would be better to couch things in terms of the costs of suspending researcher's liberty to share and build upon others' published work, and the benefits of undoing that suspension, restoring the researcher's natural right to liberty.<BR/><BR/>'Control rights' are certainly not to be granted to researchers.<BR/><BR/>See Paine: "It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect — that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few . . . They . . . consequently are instruments of injustice."Crosbie Fitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06554471152790988479noreply@blogger.com