When I hear statements like what Dana Blankenhorn has written here, it makes me giggle.
Science in our time is not open source by default. All research that’s shared is copyrighted, and it’s pursued by Universities with an aim of winning patents and royalties. It is, in sum, proprietary.
Science from the days of Newton has the open format. In fact, it is only correct to claim that open source has adopted scientific model. It is only in US, we see universities running around to patent stuff. Even then, a big percentage of scientists stick the the age old scientific model of knowledge sharing. I find it funny that Dana could even think along the lines above. Probably, it could be due to his education in a purely capitalistic environment. For a person like me, who got educated in both capitalistic and socialistic (erstwhile India) environment, I never considered science in the way Dana perceives it. I suppose my kinda sentiment is pervasive in Asia and Europe. Whatever it is, Dana’s characterization of science is wrong.
