spoke in a previous post of the reasons or motives of mass digitization projects. The question arises whether the knowledge economy embodied in models such as the free software would be valid for general knowledge.
no necessity for a scan with a certain level of abstraction, the so-called "knowledge economy" and are some tangible reasons entity. The simplest is the actual communication ability of agents that promote and potentially develop their own knowledge society. Internet can effectively utilize its global digital agency, however small it, caused a change in the rules of the game "very important.
As is known, any given subject (eg a specific field of research), captured on paper represented a costly option inefficient distribution and dissemination. That same specialized topic, the Internet and available technology or electronic scanning in any branch of knowledge, takes a new twist to their potential and their own chances of making profitable expertise in economic terms, but in a very opposite directions to conventional tracked or linked to traditional publishing.
In other words, the correct address of the labor would be given a chance first "pop" according to which "knowledge is shared grows" and the prerequisite of "creating markets" on the Internet for different areas of expertise or scientific discipline.
just three years ago would have been impossible to imagine that communities are not organized to compete in quality free software and proprietary software products in the hands of companies with strong market position. This case is not necessarily unusual or isolated. It is hoped that the free dissemination of knowledge in general make it more competitive and help him progress faster.
Down to areas less abstract. the digitalization of knowledge is linked to many relevant aspects of academic activity. This is not lost for those receiving privileged information from the demands and preferences of users in Internet search engines. Hence, Google and Microsoft might be taking this issue very seriously, because advance knowledge of its potential. It is interesting to observe the searches related to a specific scientific or technical term (sometimes surprisingly "commercial").
But in all this, remain uncertain about the commercial components not yet clearly identified. Obtained these benefits via such online advertising and once reached the online availability of mass digitization. What reasons would have to oppose open libraries, open to knowledge? References to intellectual property would be fairly related to the real interests they represent. And in any case, welcome the business interests that favored a free and open access to knowledge.
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