Comments on: International Journal of Open Source Software & Processes http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/04/international-journal-of-open-source-software-and-processes/ Dirk Riehle's blog about everything computer science, applied and more Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Will Hunting http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/04/international-journal-of-open-source-software-and-processes/#comment-158 Will Hunting Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:14:03 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=90#comment-158 Open source arrives at a new vision for a knowledge commons by virtue of being at the heart of technological change, a stage advanced human progress in communication that depends upon openness to exist, that depends on change in the vision for access to knowledge and price barriers. Journal research since 1665 has existed for the sake of dissemination of research, only limited by the cost of print publication in the absence of the internet, and where unfettered access has always been the ideal. Ideas like open access and open innovation exist, and open source technologies exist, because philosophy and science gets communicated well (importantly though not exclusively as a result of p/r journals checking quality and disseminating broadly), and ideally this would be in some sort of 'global knowledge commons'. with no entry barrier and no transaction cost for the user. Open source and the web is what allows something like a global knowledge commons to be born. Kind of a sperm and egg situation. Having it be subscription-based journal of science on open source is like putting a condom on when you are trying to make a baby. Fortunately, most authors of articles on open source are likely aware of open access archiving, so the baby will be born either way, and subscription-based journals will have a placenta-like fate. Carrying this metaphor further, if you would create a high quality open access journal about open source with the best knowledge design ideas of the open source community, built from the best business, software and community/social media web 2.0, the semantic web 3.0, and the mysterious web 4.0 (probably to be explained in such a journal), - that would be something like great sex. Best of luck to the journal. Good Will Hunting (wise-ass) Open source arrives at a new vision for a knowledge commons by virtue of being at the heart of technological change, a stage advanced human progress in communication that depends upon openness to exist, that depends on change in the vision for access to knowledge and price barriers. Journal research since 1665 has existed for the sake of dissemination of research, only limited by the cost of print publication in the absence of the internet, and where unfettered access has always been the ideal.

Ideas like open access and open innovation exist, and open source technologies exist, because philosophy and science gets communicated well (importantly though not exclusively as a result of p/r journals checking quality and disseminating broadly), and ideally this would be in some sort of ‘global knowledge commons’. with no entry barrier and no transaction cost for the user. Open source and the web is what allows something like a global knowledge commons to be born. Kind of a sperm and egg situation. Having it be subscription-based journal of science on open source is like putting a condom on when you are trying to make a baby.

Fortunately, most authors of articles on open source are likely aware of open access archiving, so the baby will be born either way, and subscription-based journals will have a placenta-like fate.

Carrying this metaphor further, if you would create a high quality open access journal about open source with the best knowledge design ideas of the open source community, built from the best business, software and community/social media web 2.0, the semantic web 3.0, and the mysterious web 4.0 (probably to be explained in such a journal), – that would be something like great sex.

Best of luck to the journal.

Good Will Hunting
(wise-ass)

]]> By: Dirk Riehle http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/04/international-journal-of-open-source-software-and-processes/#comment-157 Dirk Riehle Fri, 23 May 2008 22:43:49 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=90#comment-157 Hi James, I will point the editor-in-chief to your post. I also asked why IGI-Global does not provide open access to papers; they said they'd do so for the first year, and also that they are working on an open access policy. How that will look like I don't know. Hi James, I will point the editor-in-chief to your post.

I also asked why IGI-Global does not provide open access to papers; they said they’d do so for the first year, and also that they are working on an open access policy. How that will look like I don’t know.

]]> By: James Dixon http://dirkriehle.com/2008/04/04/international-journal-of-open-source-software-and-processes/#comment-156 James Dixon Fri, 23 May 2008 22:28:53 +0000 http://www.riehle.org/?p=90#comment-156 As much as I would like to contribute to this journal the restrictive practices you impose around copyright and IP are completely as misaligned with the philosophies of open source and the views of the people who know most about the subjects you are interested in. My works: The Beekeeper: A model to explain how commercial open source companies function operationally - http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/BEEKEEPER/The+Beekeeper Open Scrum: An agile methodology specifically designed for open source and commercial open source development - http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/OpenScrum/Home My works are made available under the Free Art License so you are welcomed to publish them, I don't need to assign the copyright to you. James Dixon As much as I would like to contribute to this journal the restrictive practices you impose around copyright and IP are completely as misaligned with the philosophies of open source and the views of the people who know most about the subjects you are interested in.

My works:

The Beekeeper: A model to explain how commercial open source companies function operationally – http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/BEEKEEPER/The+Beekeeper

Open Scrum: An agile methodology specifically designed for open source and commercial open source development – http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/OpenScrum/Home

My works are made available under the Free Art License so you are welcomed to publish them, I don’t need to assign the copyright to you.

James Dixon

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