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Great post. There are so many angles to this topic. Here are a few of my own. Will not let the chance pass to spill my frustrations would i not.
* As a lowly Operational Security Engineer i like to be on-the-spot when it get’s to getting news updates. Due to the ‘aggregators’ on the interweb this is easily described as bothersome, nervewrecking. These aggregators don’t allways keep track of the whole story and do attract quite a bit of people with less then serious mindsets.Bloatware on legs so to speak.
* It came to my attention that companies harvest idea’s on forums, newsgroups, blogs, wherever which they then use to build products protected by IP. That’s sick. I know these days people don’t value an idea, because anyone can have one (duh!) but that’s counter-productive and counter-innovative. It are the people actually having an idea who are best suitable to position and elaborate on them.Idea’s don’t come cheap you know, but they are shared as a matter of social-intelligence or altruism (“sharing is caring”). Companies, IMHO, would benefit greatly from a more positive attitude towards ‘sharers’.
Additionally … it would prove more then beneficial to license your content with Creative Commons type licensing, this license is accepted worldwide and under continuous review. Plugins exist for at least one browser (Firefox) to make your contents license visible to the visitor.
Moreover it gives you the right to decide how, to who etc. you share your content.
http://creativecommons.org/
Hope this proves usefull.
Ironically I actually removed my CreativeCommons badge as I started to wonder if said “aggregators” where seeing it as permission to copy my content! I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about CreativeCommons licensing… and until that is resolved, I don’t see it being useful! At least, for me!
Chris, set this up on Cafepress, and I will buy the T-Shirt !!!
Chris – Excellent write-up.
Plagiarism is certainly bad, but I think it is a bit draconian to suggest that it is the death of open information sharing.
As an associate editor for ‘Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective’ (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uiss20/current), I can tell you that the community is able to identify plagiarism, and over time, the culprits are caught.
Speaking of plagiarists being caught, I think the ultimate irony is that LIGATT illegally scraped my article “Lessons from LIGATT’ last week at https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/15064-Lessons-from-LIGATT.html, and hosted it on their web site. Talk about Darwin Award nominees.