Open vs closed (was Re: [TriLUG] sample chapters...)

[Michael Hrivnak]

For example, MIT believes in "OpenCourseWare"

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Michael

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Subject: Open vs closed (was Re: [TriLUG] sample chapters...)

On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> but i better be careful that i don't
> end up publishing the whole thing onlike.  i'm not sure that would
> be smart for business. :-)

it'd be smart; go ahead; people will pay if it's good (heh-heh); then
again, 
if it's closed you won't get the reviews from the global village that
makes 
open source so powerful

Seriously though, what do we do now?  What should be open and what
should be 
closed?  If it's closed then how should it be managed?  If it's 
free-as-in-speech but not free-as-in-beer, how is that managed -
reliance on 
ethics of the majority?

We have Stallman and McBride to guide us on open vs closed software
models.  
Who's leading the discussion about all the options between their
opposing 
views?     
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Mike Mueller
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