Left or right: openness – Frontiere digitali

[From Google's English]"Open source, open content, open access, open data, open government. The journalism and political rhetoric have seized the adjective open to fold often interpretations of convenience with no respect for its origins and its deep meaning, which is to ensure co-operation between human beings, encouraging creativity, culture and knowledge . The challenge for the openness, openness of data and information, against forms of private appropriation of what is produced in an ethical, social and cooperative by men and women, to this day coincides with the battle for free software and release of the data within the hacker culture and the movements for advertising of knowledge against a copyright considered antiquated and totalitarian.  Hackers, the virtuosos of the software, they understood before others the liberating and emancipatory potential of information technology, computers and digital, as a means to better understand the world and be more free to do and to choose, thanks to chance to socialize data, information and knowledge. It was no accident: almost all came from the Republic of Science par excellence, the University ..."