The Committe for Economic Development, an eminent American conservative think tank / lobby group / nexus of sinister conspiracy to rule the world, has released a new report entitled Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness. This conclusions of this report are highly supportive of open standards, lukewarm but generally approving of free and open source software, and quite keen on "open innovation", which might be more informatively labelled "free data" (projects such as Wikipedia and open courseware projects are cited).
It is heartening to see that even an organisation representing the biggest of big business recognises that "Digital Intellectual Property" is a "Special Problem", to paraphrase an earlier report.
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