[wos] post-openness

[Armin Medosch]

Hi 

> > > These sub-categories from WSFII were, as ever, unable to describe the
> > > diversity and complexity of what people were actually doing.

I find it amazing that after roughly a decade of having that discourse 
you are still operating with those sub-categories as if nothing had 
happened or changed. 

> > > 
> > > - Open Geodata
> > > - Free Networks
> > > - Open Money
> > > - Open Civic Information
> > > - Open Hardware
> > > - Free/Open Culture

This looks to me like a supermarket of things 'open' and 'free' rather 
than addressing the 'complexity' of things. the unqualified discourse 
on openness is starting to do more harm than good. addressing the 
complexity would mean to take a sober and self-critical look rather 
than continuing to exist in an 'open' and 'free' bubble of good western 
liberal values and self-righteousness. I hope WOS4 is not going down 
that route. 
regards
Armin