Re: Special OAIster Announcement from OCLC

From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:14:31 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Tim Spalding writes

> There should be a ban on the word "sustainability" to mean "give me
> your money." It's grating to hear the language of redwoods and great
> spotted owls to justify another monopolistic expansion.

  Moral indignation only gets you so far. We have to press the BUSINESS
  case for open free libraries. I have said it (almost) six years ago:

http://openlib.org/home/krichel/presentations/new_york_2003-11-07.ppt

  see slides 1 to 11, and slide 32 to 43

  I said it last year:

http://openlib.org/home/krichel/papers/kuyus.html

  I said it last week on liblicense-l:

http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0909/msg00050.html

  see 4th paragraph.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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Received on Tue Sep 22 2009 - 14:16:33 EDT