[iDC] iCollege

[Simon Biggs]

Yes Brad. That's the point I am making. Is Mendeley a genuine open-source
initiative, committed to remaining open into the future or, like Ning, an
attempt to build an open-source community of users/producers (crowd-sourcing
model) and then, when need is established, move to a pay-wall model, forcing
its members to either pay or leave?

Best

Simon
 

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> From: { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Simon Biggs <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk>
> Cc: Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com>, <iDC at mailman.thing.net>
> Subject: Re: [iDC] iCollege
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> Doesn't it seem incongruous at best (and perhaps illegal)
> for 'pay-walled' exclusive edu-factories to take unethical
> advantage of open-source platforms?
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> /:b
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> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Simon Biggs wrote:
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>> Yes, my mistake. I should have said P2P publication sharing platform. It's
>> target is the domain currently dominated by Thomson but with an open source
>> ethic. However, it does have a premium mode. Experience suggests this is
>> where the intended business model lies. That is not open source but involves
>> a pay-wall. The question is whether Mendeley offers something new which
>> connects with an open source ethic or not?
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