The disagreement between Microsoft and eEye highlights a burgeoning culture clash in the computer world where traditional corporate secrecy collides with the free-information ethos of the Net.
Using population data, Ethos can offer insurance policies in roughly ten minutes based on a few bits of customer information.
If we reach a point where the agenda of universities is set by a handful of techlords, as well as the control over their information and the ethos of universities, higher education is looking ahead a very different age.
So schooling consisted of the transmission of information, recalling the ethos of Thomas Gradgrind, the notorious headmaster in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times, who considered his pupils pitchers to be filled with facts.
As a consequence of these differing standards, Google has considerably less flexibility overseas than it does in the United States about content on its sites, and its "information must be free" ethos is being tested abroad.
Instead, the web got caught up in the ethos that information wants to be free.
This ethos emphasises that information is not a neutral, boundless resource to be exploited, but rather is morally inextricable from the humans who supply it.
Social media is often critiqued for its selfie-centered ethos, but the technology-fueled information age isn't always egotistical.
All of it was offered under the ethos, derived from Deadhead philosophy, that information seeks to be free.
They are pitted against the overwhelming majority of Wikipedia's users, who share the site's "free culture" ethos, which opposes the suppression of information that it is legal to publish.
We therefore strongly urge, that the scientific community move towards an ethos where scientific data is published in semantic form and where both authors and publishers feel under an obligation to make this information openly available.
