[Open-access] [open-science] how open is it

Wed Oct 10 20:26:24 UTC 2012

Yes, I had that experience, too. My guess is that most people go
through an NC phase before having a moment on enlightenment. I must
blog about this properly some time.

-- Mike.

On 10 October 2012 21:25, Björn Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike Taylor wrote:
>
>> THANK you, Cameron.
>
> Second that. I read some of the critiques of CC-BY and
> didn't find them persuasive - in fact I didn't understand
> the arguments, really. Your arguments did make a lot of
> sense to me.
>
> The NC issue is an emotional one for those who simply don't
> want to see 'their' work commercialized without the
> profit-making organization paying anything for it. I can
> relate to that and I think I can remember ticking off 'NC'
> at least once somewhere. I find that very understandable -
> until one realizes that everybody already paid their share
> for this work via their taxes and don't really need to be
> paying again. Took me a while...
>
> Bjoern
>
>
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> Björn Brembs
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