What do you think is the long-term effect of a mandated "open science" platform? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/european-science-funders-ban-grantees-publishing-paywalled-journals …
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Likely effects: in the short run may be good. Over long term: lock-in, stagnation, lack of competition, & eventually obsolescense. We actually have a long-term (informally) mandated open science platform already: it's called the journal. Worked well for a long time, but got stuck
In general, it's something I wonder about a lot. What you want is a very competitive market, where there are large rewards motivating innovation in the public interest. At the moment we're a long way from that, and not every open science proposal will move us that much closer
