On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote:
> No. The big issue is to ensure that non-CC REFERENCES don't disappear. > Nope, I don't agree here -- the longer you perpetuate access to non-free content (by making sure that non-free content doesn't disappear), the longer we fuel the monopoly of switches in the network which regulates access and price to knowledge which should remain free. Ideas and OER want to be free. Digital data doesn't care which pipe transports it. It is the switches (non-CC licenses, DRM, passwords etc.) which regulate access and push up the price to a commodity which costs near-zero to duplicate. Working predominantly in the post-secondary formal education sector - -the OER Foundation does not want to perpetuate a ludicrous situation where taxpayers are frequently required to pay twice for their learning materials. Cheers Wayne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
