24 Aug
2016
24 Aug
'16
7:15 p.m.
Probably old-hat to everyone else;
but "open-source" seems to be taking on a political life of it's own.
I was listening to Michael Mackenzie;
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/michael-mackenzie/3112224
doing an interview with a young women, regarding "open-source " research
see for example :
http://www.mmv.org/research-development/open-access-malaria-box
http://www.mmv.org/research-development/open-source-research
and wondered whether either, were aware of it's origins as
as a software 'philosophy ' ?
regards Rohan Mcleod
24 Aug
24 Aug
7:29 p.m.
Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn(a)jeack.com.au):
Probably old-hat to everyone else;
but "open-source" seems to be taking on a political life of it's own.
I was listening to Michael Mackenzie;
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/michael-mackenzie/3112224
doing an interview with a young women, regarding "open-source " research
see for example :
http://www.mmv.org/research-development/open-access-malaria-box
http://www.mmv.org/research-development/open-source-research
and wondered whether either, were aware of it's origins as
as a software 'philosophy ' ?
Probably.
Two things: 1. 'Open source' in the software sense is now being
applied as a metaphorical concept to other things. Without following
links, I will guess that this young woman's notion of 'open-source
research' is one of those, and refers to what it more properly called
'open research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research
2. The term 'open source' did have established meanings in some areas
_other_ than software before the founders of OSI created the notion of
'open source' as a more-competent marketing programme for free software.
For example, in espionage, 'open source' data is data gleaned from
non-covert sources such as magazines, newspapers, scholarly works,
government publications, books, etc.
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