> > > >> rjf, I (once again) *highly* recommend Steven Weber's > >> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018587 "The Success > of > >> Open Source", in particular the chapters on self-governance in open > source, > >> as a place to start reading about this. > >> > > > > Ironically, Weber's book is itself not free, but is sold for $24.50. > > Maybe his belief in open whatever does not > > extend to the intellectual property that he himself produces.. > Maybe you are confusing scientific literature (published by a > traditional publisher) with religious one? > > Not to mention that tenure committees probably aren't too hot on things release with a CC-BY license, more's the pity ;-) This is not a dogmatic work, though it does take a side, like most social science literature.
> > Can you provide a link to an open discussion of this matter? > > (while I could perhaps borrow a copy from a library, there are people > who > > might not > > have access to a library copy. etc.) > > True, but if I recall correctly, at one time rms also charged for certain GNU documentation - not the code! In fact, O'Reilly seems to have made an entire business model of this - and perhaps not unfair, if one believes that the moral issue is access to the *code*/program, not how to use it. This is one of many reasons that improving Sage's documentation (or Maxima's, or anything) is so crucial to making the promise of open source be useful to those outside the cognoscenti. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
