Quotes About Open access

We are a cut-and-paste culture. The aim of the protectionists is to argue that a cut-and-paste culture is criminal. Well, it's only criminal if there's nothing out there that you can freely cut and paste. If we increasingly mark material as available for these non-commercial uses, then people will have the opportunity to see its importance.

Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.

As more and more people reach the Internet by mobile phone, we should make sure users are getting the open access they believe they're paying for.

The Ripple network is a protocol. It's like HTTP for money. Users, merchants, anyone can use it for free without a license.

Richard Stallman, a free-lance computer programmer, loudly proclaimed that information should be free.

The freedom of expression and entrepreneurship that have characterized the Internet to date would be a thing of the past, and the Internet, which has until now resisted the forces of corporate clout, and has maintained open and equal access for individuals as well as for corporate entities, would become a failed dream

Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.