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Well I guess I don't see free and open as being opposing to each other. Now there is the option of being Free as in Beer but I really believe with the Internet
by baldfat 11y ago
Well I guess I don't see free and open as being opposing to each other. Now there is the option of being Free as in Beer but I really believe with the Internet we can have free and open. IF someone takes grant money from the government the research should be both free from fees and not behind a paid wall.
- masklinn 11y ago> Well I guess I don't see free and open as being opposing to each other. Orthogonal means independent, not opposing. You can have free and open, you can have free and closed, you can have non-free and open and you can have non-free and closed. > IF someone takes grant money from the government the research should be both free from fees and not behind a paid wall. Be as it may, even with mostly volunteers running a peer-reviewed journal has costs, so unless governments start journal grants of sorts...
- baldfat 11y agoyou 100% right. I was thinking of Orthogonal lines :) 90 degrees to each other.
- masklinn 11y agoThat's the origin, the simile is that orthogonal lines represent completely disjoint sets and are uncorrelated, so one can be changed without impacting the other. It's kinda weird, but there you are.