SubSónica

Extremadamente interesante (y preocupante) lo que publica Juan Freire en su siempre imprescindible bitácora:
Habla sobre el proyecto Open and Shut!, resultado de que a un periodista, todas las editoriales a las que acudió le rechazasen un libro de entrevistas a personalidades del movimiento Open Source por miedo a desairar a las compañías y editoriales con un modelo de negocio “tradicional”:

Three years ago I had an idea for a book. It was a simple enough idea: I could see that an increasing number of “free” or “open” movements were developing, and that while they all had different aims, they appeared to represent a larger and more generalised development than their movement-specific objectives might suggest.

Indeed, I felt that they looked set to exemplify the old adage that the sum of some phenomena is always greater than the constituent parts. But if that was right, then what was the sum in this particular case?

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I was also very curious about the individuals who had founded these movements: What has motivated them? Why did they feel so passionately about the cause that they had adopted (and it was clear that most of them were extraordinarily passionate advocates)? Why did they think these open movements had developed when they did, and what did they think the various movements had in common (if anything) with one another? Finally, I wanted to know what big picture issues they saw behind these movements, and how they saw them developing going forward?

Pero, el proyecto se torció cuando Poynder se lo presentó a las editoriales:

In 2003, therefore, I put together a book proposal and sent it off a number of publishers. Several got back to me and said they liked the idea, but they felt that since many of the people I planned to interview, and the movements that they represented, were somewhat controversial they would prefer that the book included interviews with representatives from some of the companies and organisations whose business models and traditions were being challenged by the new (not to say subversive) thinking being promulgated by these movements — representatives, that is, from companies like Microsoft, Reed Elsevier, Thompson Corporation, Monsanto, Knight Ridder, and industry organisations like the Association of American Publishers, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the Motion Picture Association of America.