Has taken a while to digest the content of this entry, now having done so I would like to refer back to my comment Gavin Bakers entry 'Open Access Journal Literature is an Open Educational Resource' of 2007-09-05 (comment #3)
I agree with the points of the Four Postulates and they have become yet more fodder for the ongoing discussions as we advance our learning network out the Camp and on to the streets. I remain confident that at the end of the day Open Access will become a 'Habit' and universally accepted for. To use a analogy recently made about our own situation - 'You hatched this dragon and now that it has learned to fly, have fun trying the get it back. . .' Open Access will grow with the cooperation of the status quo, or it will replace and become the status quo and the sooner people embrace the idea the better it will become. I realize I am speaking to the converted, but we are a unique aberration, rapidly becoming a force and it is incumbent on us all to get people to listen.
'Control+Ault+Delete' is no longer the status quo. I love the quote of Tom Perkins in Wired Magazine 15.07 http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/15-07/ff_boat
'No way Bill Gates is controlling my boat, - I don't ever want to have to press Control-Alt-Delete to restart, to make my boat go.'
I suggest that this applies to more than Bill.
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