Not bad, except in economic terms, food is a private good (it is rivalrous and can be excluded, and can only be consumed only once), whereas publicly-funded research results (articles, data) on digital networks are public goods (they are non-rival and difficult or inefficient to exclude, since the value increases with use). So the situation is actually much worse than the analogy leads one to conclude.  Paul Â
________________________________________________________________________________ From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of CHARLES OPPENHEIM [c.oppenh...@btinternet.com] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 6:53 AM To: GlobalOpen Access List ( Successor of Am Sci) Subject: [GOAL] Nice blog post on OA http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/10/parable-farmers-teleporting- duplicator?CMP=twt_gu Very nice analogy! Charles  Professor Charles Oppenheim [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
