From the daily archives: Thursday, November 17, 2005

Open Knowledge Drives out Closed

By Rufus Pollock On November 17, 2005 · 1 Comment

Open knowledge drives out closed (in the long run).

(After Gresham’s Bad money drives out good though with opposite sense). I tentatively dub this Pollock’s law .

Open knowledge here is taken as given by the open knowledge definition and, in its essentials, means freely accessible, reusable and redistributable. Closed by contrast means knowledge [...]

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