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        1. Turning on openness in research seems fairly uncontroversial. How do we fight corporations, etc. that benefit from closedness? #digifest16
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        Vendors, publishers, etc. maintain the status quo because they benefit from it. We need to burn them down before we can be open #digifest16
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      #burnitalldown #digifest16
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    We all want openness in research. The vested corporate interests are the ones stopping us. We need to fight them #burnitalldown #digifest16
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      In other words, inertia isn't stopping open research: capitalism is stopping open research #digifest16
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        It's not that we haven't yet found the Magical Solution: it's that we are actively prevented from doing the things we want to do #digifest16