Open Access and Eric Raymond
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20
Summary:
“This blog has been tackling the problem of Open Access, what it’s vision is and how to get a coherent movement. I’ve been excited to get a comment from Eric Raymond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond )... Here’s his comment in full – I then comment. http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/12/20/the-open-access-movement-is-disorganized-this-must-not-continue/#comment-102743... [An excerpt from Eric Raymond’s comment states,] ‘I endorse P-MR’s analysis and his conclusions. You need a parallel to our Open Source Definition – an Open Access Definition. And, yes, it cannot allow no-commercial-use restrictions... Some of you in this discussion seem ready to constitute yourselves as an Open Access Initiative and write an Open Access Definition. To which I say; do it! Audacity is required in these situations...’ I’m delighted to get this additional confirmation we are on the right track. We are audacious, we have our own definition (http://opendefinition.org/ )... What we need is a revitalised Open Access Initiative. One that insists on BOAI-compliant, OKD-compliant... Discussion and creativity continues on http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-access ...”