This is quite an interesting report and readers will get a lot out of it, though I can't help but feel it was skewed a bit. The objective was to understand the state of 'open' on the web - where it is and where it's going - and the researchers evaluated this through "interviews with digital activists and open movement leaders." This has them depicting 'open' as a form of activism rather than a set of practices, and a depiction of it as a political movement rather than a social or cultural trend. That's why we see calls for greater coordination, collaboration and shared vision - all things an 'open' internet doesn't need. I also felt the authors struggled to find words to express what they're describing. The 'paradox of open', for example, is that "the 'open revolution' that many within the open movement imagined and hoped for turned out not to be the path that the development of the internet followed, especially in the last decade." That's disappointing, but it's not what the word 'paradox' means.
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