The Open Movement

I've been doing some reading on the open movement trying to get to the root of what it's about. (There is some crazy talk out there.) In the process I found an interesting discussion on this very topic, the root of it. It's a blog posting entitled what is the open movement? The posting focuses around one of the general happiness drivers for humans beings, building things. The argument seems to address open-source and enabling humanity to improve tools for building things. However, if you consider content a tool for building better content then I guess the same argument holds for open-access.

By the way, I've started a del.icio.us tag for OpenMovement where you might find a lot of interesting links. The Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing is a really interesting page on open-access.