[wos] post-openness

[Saul Albert]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:54:13PM -0000, Armin Medosch wrote:
> 
> 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

And your topic proposal is...?

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