Science 2.0 -- Is Open Access Science the Future?
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| Critiquing, suggesting, sharing ideas and data—this communication is the
| heart of science, the most powerful tool ever invented for correcting errors,
| building on colleagues’ work and fashioning new knowledge. Although the
| classic peer-reviewed paper is important, says Surridge, who publishes a lot
| of them, “they’re effectively just snapshots of what the authors have done
| and thought at this moment in time. They are not collaborative beyond that,
| except for rudimentary mechanisms such as citations and letters to the
| editor.”
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0
Finally it's about science and not just money, using secrets.
The success in Linux
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| An article recently put out, asks the question "Why are there no Linux
| billionaires?"
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| What is the problem with there being no "billionaires"?
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| That's the problem with most of the people associated with this, they
| automatically equate success to expanse of finances.
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| There are many ways to define or describe "success", yet most people only
| seem to see the money.
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| Financial success does not always equate to success of a company, person or
| product.
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http://linuxgeeksunited.blogspot.com/2008/04/success-in-linux.html
By "disagreeing" with the GPL, Microsoft essentially disagrees with science,
with ethics.
Related:
Franklin and Open Source
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| One of America's most famous scientists and statesmen was also astute enough
| to understand the value of the free flow of ideas. Although an inventor of no
| small acclaim, his inventions for the most part were freely shared for the
| benefits of society, yet he still made his way in life richly and was both
| socially and financially successful.
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/3/32932
The commons, the state and transformative politics
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| Here, free and open software is not just an inspirational metaphor but also a
| material tool for facilitating this kind of collaboration between individual
| users and public sector workers, shifting the balance of power from
| centralised public service management towards the user and the skilled
| service provider. It is also a tool for shifting co-ordination between
| different parts of a public service, moving us from a hierarchical to a
| co-operative model. This in turn will allow for greater autonomy in the local
| provision of local services under active local control while at the same time
| collaborating and co-ordinating across a wider territory.
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http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=17760
Cyberpunk icon proposes open source political party
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| This week, Sirius proposed the establishment of a new open-source political
| party that aims to give a voice to disenfranchised voters.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071127-cyberpunk-icon-proposes-open-source-political-party.html
Software Science vs Software Evolution, or Software Science and Software
Evolution?
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| And yet the unanticipated success of high profile technologies like Linux,
| Apache, MySQL, PHP, and even Rails suggest that complementing software
| science with software evolution is likely to yield even more impressive
| results. By all means, employ science to focus and hone your investments when
| necessary, but don’t forget that evolution is where true innovation comes
| from.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/12/11/software_evolution/
The Software God Delusion
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| Open source isn’t religion; it’s an evolution of the software industry.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/06/the_software_go.html
Have we raised a generation of technology drones?
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| I have been in the IT field long enough to remember when we didn't
| live in a Microsoft centric world. Several office applications from
| different vendors existed: Wordstar, Ami Pro/Word Pro, WordPerfect,
| Word, etc. Everyone had their preferences, based on needs, personal
| preferences, support and sometimes just on having learned a particular
| application first. Microsoft's domination in the office and now
| educational desktop seems to have led to a generation of technology
| drones. How can competition exist when anything not produced by Microsoft
| is considered to be a lesser product?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/have_we_raised_a_generation_of_technology_drones
Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy
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| A member of Parliament of the United Kingdom has launched a stinging
| attack on the U.K. government's IT strategy, saying that it has given
| Microsoft too much control.
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| John Pugh, who is a member of Parliament, or MP, for Southport and a
| member of the Public Accounts Committee, was speaking in an
| adjournment debate on Tuesday that he had called. The aim of the
| debate, he said, was to explore the alternatives to using Microsoft
| software, including open source.
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http://www.news.com/Lawmaker-blasts-U.K.-government-on-Microsoft-policy/2100-1012_3-6212721.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ashm2
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