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Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:02:45 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

Boom. Yes. We need to drop patents and paywalls (and 'IP' in general). They don't 'drive' innovation like we've been told. Quite the opposite. https://theconversation.com/why-we-need-open-source-science-innovation-not-patents-and-paywalls-192484
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1. Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls
  
  from @ProfPearce
  
  In open-source endowed research positions, professors release all of their intellectual property. Surveys of academics in the U.S. and Canada find most like the idea.
- Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
- Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:46:28 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿
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  The only ones who really benefit from patents are IP lawyers and a few shareholders. And enriching either group is not likely to be in any of our interests. Paywall are somewhat less comprehensively risible, however, I'm troubled by the entire idea of artificial scarcity-based business models. There are other ways of doing things, and we need to coordinate to make them work better. And we need to get rid of artificial scarcity models along the way.
  
  In conversation Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:46:28 JST permalink

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