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Cognition - Balls Up Entrepreneurship and Juggling: <N> Reasons Why Open Standards, more than Open Source, Really Matter

Jesse Andrews · 10 months ago

Interestingly the Dewey Decimal System is trademarked and copyright OCLC (who in 2003 sued the Library Hotel for using it!)

Just as it is obvious to us why net neutrality, open standards, open source are important - there are many things that we don't see:

http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/12/...

DDC is an example of something that seems open and people adopt, and then suddenly what was thought to be a commons is owned by a company... *cough* rambus *cough*...