Openness has its roots in pragmatism. For an emphasis on the ethics and philosophy (without losing the pragmatism):
http://wikieducator.org/Say_Libre K On 4 May 2013 16:20, Marc Joffe <[email protected]> wrote: > Bastien > > I used Outlook and a number of other proprietary tools to build a sovereign > fiscal data set which I announced on OKFN blog back in January. See > http://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/31/sovereign-credit-risk-an-open-database/. > The tools I used are less important than the ultimate result of my work: a > free data set carrying the Open Data Commons Attribution License. > > My point is that if one wants to be an advocate of open data, one should > also contribute open data. What tools one uses to assemble the open data is > not important (as long as the tools' licenses do not restrict distribution > of the work product). > > I hope this distinction makes sense. > > Regards, > Marc > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simone Aliprandi > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 4:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] about open access but not open access > >> I'm not sure what "Openness is also a philosophy, a stlye of life" >> means. Where do you start, where do you stop? For example, Marc in >> this thread is using Microsoft Outlook for sending emails. Should we >> blame him? > > I repeat that in my opinion it is not the same thing. > It doesn't matter what a person does in his own computer; but it does matter > what he publicly assert... especially when he is trying to teach someone > else what is wrong and what is right. > > bye, Simone > -- > Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
