Other successful Free Projects: Open Access

• Free access to scientific information

  • Growing movement in the scientific communities

    More and more acceptance in the scientific communities

  • Based on Internet technology

  • Aligns well with scientific tradition of open flow of thoughts

  • Based on established methods of peer review

• Produces useful products

• At the forefront of the development of productive forces

  Science is a pre-condition for production with ever increasing importance

• Free in the sense of (Doubly) Free Software

  • Freedom is pre-condition and result of the process
  • Unlimited externally and internally

• Challenge: Counter movement to lock away scientific information

  E.g. patents

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