[open-science] [SCHOLCOMM] Libre open access, copyright, patent law, and, other intellectual property matters

Thu Mar 22 20:02:52 UTC 2012

On 3/22/12 4:35 PM, john wilbanks wrote:
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> Non commercial restrictions have *side effects* that are bad for 
> innovation and bad for science. We need entrepreneurs and not just 
> academics.

FWIW: in the software world there is no such thing as an NC license.
At least no OSI-approved one. And for good reasons.

As obvious as this may be to those in the business ...

Raphael

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> This is not nearly as much of a problem in the humanities on first 
> blush, but the reality is that as text mining gets better, faster, 
> cheaper, and more subtle in the hard sciences, it will bring amazing 
> tools to the humanities as well.
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> jtw
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