- From: Imre Simon <is@ime.usp.br>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 14:46:43 -0300
- To: www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
The advent of the Internet, the WWW and the free software communities showed the enormous potential of the novel paradigm of the "cooperative construction of information goods". This paradigm relies essentially on the availability of "open information", i.e. information which is open for copying, open for dissemination and open for improving. This seems to be essential in implementing the very fast and very dynamic evolution cycles that characterize those communities. I believe that our society has a long and intelectually very rich road ahead of it in developing and in applying the cooperative paradigm, also to new areas, such as the cooperative construction of educational contents, for instance. The implementation of the RAND proposal would clearly jeopardize these possibilities. Please, do not allow such an event to occur. Let us keep alive the wonderful experiment of the "cooperative construction" of the last two or three decades. Long live open information! Imre Simon Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil http://www.ime.usp.br/~is/
Received on Thursday, 4 October 2001 13:49:09 UTC