http://austgate.co.uk/2008/07/the-guardian-takes-two-on-piracy/ Open Knowledge and Literature Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:05:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://austgate.co.uk/2008/07/the-guardian-takes-two-on-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1594 Last week’s letters and blog pingbacks in full Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:37:24 +0000 http://austgate.co.uk/?p=16#comment-1594 [...] >> It boggles the mind how one industry can so clearly get it and work with it, whilst another stumbles aimlessly around trying to justify its current existence. However, if you go sideways, there are some intriguing parallels to this. Freeing data and knowledge sets allows an individual to come up with and explore new ideas. It also means that potentially some revenue will be lost if there are charges involved. Well, it’s going to happen any way but one might as well accept this and work on ways of making the original source more appealing and useful. austgate.co.uk [...] [...] >> It boggles the mind how one industry can so clearly get it and work with it, whilst another stumbles aimlessly around trying to justify its current existence. However, if you go sideways, there are some intriguing parallels to this. Freeing data and knowledge sets allows an individual to come up with and explore new ideas. It also means that potentially some revenue will be lost if there are charges involved. Well, it’s going to happen any way but one might as well accept this and work on ways of making the original source more appealing and useful. austgate.co.uk [...]

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