Other successful Free Projects: Open Access
- Free access to scientific information
- Growing movement in the scientific communities
More and more acceptance in the scientific communities - Based on Internet technology
- Aligns well with scientific tradition of open flow of thoughts
- Based on established methods of peer review
- Growing movement in the scientific communities
- Produces useful products
- At the forefront of the development of productive forces
Science is a pre-condition for production with ever increasing importance - Free in the sense of (Doubly) Free Software
- Freedom is pre-condition and result of the process
- Unlimited externally and internally
- Challenge: Counter movement to lock away scientific information
E.g. patents
Open Access is a very interesting Free Project