Humanity is built on sharing, cooperation and community.
Was.
Yes, we all benefit when knowledge is shared. Until gathering that knowledge is cost-free, there’s a compensation requirement for expertise.
And any point in time when corps want to take the knowledge and lock it up to monetize it, we especially need to bring out intellectual property laws to keep our knowledge open and free.
World book, Webster’s dictionary and the Bible are user-pay repositories of very curated knowledge, for instance. If you’re basing your opinion on these as mechanisms for sharing our collective experience, understand they don’t freely share free info – that both freedoms aren’t present.
Was.
Yes, we all benefit when knowledge is shared. Until gathering that knowledge is cost-free, there’s a compensation requirement for expertise.
And any point in time when corps want to take the knowledge and lock it up to monetize it, we especially need to bring out intellectual property laws to keep our knowledge open and free.
World book, Webster’s dictionary and the Bible are user-pay repositories of very curated knowledge, for instance. If you’re basing your opinion on these as mechanisms for sharing our collective experience, understand they don’t freely share free info – that both freedoms aren’t present.