Computing: Open or Closed: How the Net Will be Won

"New data published last week revealed that Europeans spend an average of 10 hours 15 minutes using the internet every week, and the British considerably more. The internet is so deeply entwined with our everyday lives that it makes little sense to talk about it as some fantasy world, with its own set of laws and freedoms.

"And yet the metaphor of the American West still resonates strongly in one particular area: the battle going on between content industries and open access projects..."

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