Feb 28
We’re pretty pleased at how positive the response has been. It mostly comes from our focus on research. Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
That said, it will be fascinating to see what happens when people have to start sharing their own stuff. Most of the focus in this area has been around copyrights and patents from the business context-incentives for taking the risk-and not on what makes science go faster. Changing the discussion to “how we make science go faster” allows us to bring in a lot of voices to the debate because we’re not making the simple argument that “intellectual-property rights are bad by default.”