One of the clearest arguments I've read for why openness matters. Worth 2 minutes of your time. @andykonwinski puts into words something many of us have been feeling: -- "Democracy is built on a profound skepticism of concentrated power. Open science shares this principle. Both are built on the idea that progress and legitimacy emerge from broad, distributed participation rather than concentrated, gated authority." "If our best scientists and engineers can only reach the frontier by joining a handful of secretive labs, we do not have an open research ecosystem. We do not have a truly competitive market. We have a system in which participation increasingly depends on the permission of a few individuals at a small number of private companies." "The challenge now is to build a new commons at the intersection of academia, industry, and the public interest. This research commons must be ambitious enough to matter. It will require frontier-scale compute, access to state-of-the-art models, operational support, public investment, and philanthropic capital. It will require companies willing to contribute to an ecosystem larger than themselves, so that they can continue to benefit from open research."