 What do certain corporations lose by remaining closed off to sharing?
People generally like to share what they create, but in a culture that tells them to be protective of their ideas, people start to believe in the danger of sharing. For those who are not, what they defend as “cultural goods” and “intellectual property” are just excuses for the status quo of keeping a community closed. Much of their “culture” will be protected, but the net result is the direct loss of many other precious ideas, and the subsequent loss of all the potential gains of sharing. Non-sharing culture misleads us with its absolute separation of Private and Public space. It makes creative action a binary choice between public and private, open and closed.
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