[open-science] Openness and Licensing of (Open) Data

Wed Feb 11 14:00:45 UTC 2009

As Bill says, the evidence to date is that people behave well.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Bill Hooker <cwhooker at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>
> > In today's environment, though,
> > this scenario could mean the researcher who freely shares (but not
> > sharealike) is at a disadvantage when it comes to competing for jobs,
> > research grants, and awards.
>
>
> Everyone has their "scooping" horror story or ten, but the only
> real-life Open Science efforts I know of (Bradley, Neylon) are textbook
> examples of finding collaborators who would otherwise have never been
> reachable, and have had no problem whatsoever with bad actors.
>
> That is, if we're taking competition into account, the evidence to date
> is that sharing makes a researcher *more*, not less, competitive.  More
> such evidence is probably the best way to encourage a culture of
> sharing/use of the public domain in research.
>
>
> best,
>
> B.
>
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