[Open-access] [open-science] Open Science Anthology published

[Mike Taylor]

On 24 January 2014 16:56, Bjoern Brembs <b.brembs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am still puzzled as to why anyone thinks it important
>> that scholarly articles per se (the works as they are,
>> mostly PDFs or chunks of PDFs) into software code.
>
> See, for instance this issue:
>
> http://blog.pubchase.com/the-fake-open-access-scam/
>
> Lens is awesome! If anyone would want to provide a superior way of reading papers and get compensated for it, licenses preventing reuse would make that more difficult.

Yes.

But as always, the meta-answer is that by definition WE DON'T KNOW
what people will come up with. So let's not start out by pre-emptively
preventing them. Open up the information, and let a thousand flowers
grow.

-- Mike.