Why not CC-BY? I see attribution is something that protects the rights of consumers (by preserving the provenance chain) as much as it protects the rights of producers.
Personally I find myself going the other way. I see many free data products in the semantic web space that are only marginally succeeding, and a lot of it is that, without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it. I'd rather be working with a few people who really want the product and prove that they want it by paying for it, rather than dealing with a huge number of uncommitted people.
Why not CC-BY? I see attribution is something that protects the rights of consumers (by preserving the provenance chain) as much as it protects the rights of producers.
I want my work to spread as widely as possible. Sometime when your work get remixed so much that it doesn't make sense that somebody should preserve attribution.
Personally I find myself going the other way. I see many free data products in the semantic web space that are only marginally succeeding, and a lot of it is that, without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it. I'd rather be working with a few people who really want the product and prove that they want it by paying for it, rather than dealing with a huge number of uncommitted people.
You still want more dedicated customers. The way to get a lot of those people is to be well known. Whether or not you are able to filter them is another matter.
This article isn't arguing against high price. To me, getting paid for dead tree copies of your book is the very definition of charging a leg and an arm because they COULD read it for free on the internet.
> without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it
This is true for most open source projects, but not all. For instance, Linux is of extremely high quality. Largely because there is a profit motive for many people.
However, all is not lost. I can't tell you the number of times I picked up an open source project. Forked it, cleaned it up, added features, and put it into production. That's the real power of open source.
Personally I find myself going the other way. I see many free data products in the semantic web space that are only marginally succeeding, and a lot of it is that, without the profit motive, the people involved don't have a motivation to do the fit-and-finish work that's necessary for people to pick the product up and actually use it. I'd rather be working with a few people who really want the product and prove that they want it by paying for it, rather than dealing with a huge number of uncommitted people.