garabik comments on Improving the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: garabik 10 October 2014 01:08:05PM *  8 points [-]

I am consistently pursuing a policy of releasing what I can under permissive OpenSource or OpenContent licenses. This includes educating my co-employees about copyright and legality and the whole OpenSource idea, in a fields where no-one ever considered it before (human language resources). I daresay I have been quite successful in educating them, less in actually persuading them.

My motivation is a bit on the ideology and idealistic side, but I sincerely believe that data should be free (and would make a better world). Though it is true that this does actually hurt a certain business segment and thus it is an open question what is the improvement/detriment ratio.

Comment author: shminux 10 October 2014 03:45:22PM 6 points [-]

the whole OpenSource idea, in a fields where no-one ever considered it before (human language resources)

Feel free to write a post about it, or link to your blog or something.