Comments on: Open source and the military https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-and-the-military/2008/08/22 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-and-the-military/2008/08/22/comment-page-1#comment-295651 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:13:45 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1766#comment-295651 Hi Maximilan:

Thanks for your reponse. The way you put it in your comments, as a specialized response to specific circumstances, is of course entirely legitimate, as we all are in some way responsible for the results of our communication, though there as well, an argument could still be made for the overriding benefit of openness.

I had read it as a more general statement though, on replacing open access with tactical access, and in that general sense, I believe it concedes too much in terms of reactivity to an opponent.

Michel

]]> By: Maximilian Forte https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-source-and-the-military/2008/08/22/comment-page-1#comment-295314 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:04 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1766#comment-295314 Thanks very much for covering this so well. I am not comfortable with my own conclusions to be frank. In addition, one thing I was not really able to articulate: academia has the resources and the skills for inundating itself with a vast mass of published resources, and even so much gets neglected, much is misunderstood, there are raging disagreements, etc. I don’t see how, in practical terms, a relatively small cluster of military or intelligence personnel can derive anything but the most basic of data from this flood of academic writing. However, in extreme cases, where some of us have worked with groups that some governments have labelled “terrorist,” yes, we have to be really wary about what we do and what we write.

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