[governance] The unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access and open science

[Adam Peake]

Perhaps of interest.

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_8/willinsky/index.html

A number of open initiatives are actively resisting the extension of 
intellectual property rights. Among these developments, three 
prominent instances -- open source software, open access to research 
and scholarship, and open science -- share not only a commitment to 
the unrestricted exchange of information and ideas, but economic 
principles based on (1) the efficacy of free software and research; 
(2) the reputation-building afforded by public access and patronage; 
and, (3) the emergence of a free-or-subscribe access model. Still, 
with this much in common, the strong sense of convergence among these 
open initiatives has yet to be fully realized, to the detriment of 
the larger, common issue. By drawing on David's (2004; 2003; 2000; 
1998) economic work on open science and Weber's (2004) analysis of 
open source, this paper seeks to make that convergence all the more 
apparent, as well as worth pursuing, by those interested in 
furthering this alternative approach, which would treat intellectual 
properties as public goods.

Thanks to Lessig Blog for the pointer.

Adam
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