#7. Why Free Culture Matters?

Jeong Seo Yoon / 정서윤

The Free-Culture movement minimizes copyright pressures on creations and allows them to access it through the Internet or various forms of media without paying for it. Lessig said that excessive copyrightism hurts the driving force of creation. In the information age, the amount of information we have and the ability to access information have become another power.

There was an example of this story. It is the statistical software SPSS and R program.

IBM's SPSS is an excellent software for visualizing data with a simple interface, but at a price of between 500 million won for a license. When you need to use it on a public network, you have to pay close to 100 million won. Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, complained about the open source statistics program. That's R. R is also an example of collective intelligence because it is open source. R also emphasizes communication, sharing textual programming code, and communicating easily with others through communities such as e-mail, google, stack overflow, and git-hub.

Why do more and more people use R? Norman Matloff said:
"Both Inexpensive and Beautiful" Why use anything else?
It's open source, but it's even better, so there's no reason to write another program.

In fact, as it is open source, everyone in R freely creates packages and shares them with each other. R-studio and other programs are being created to improve existing programs. There are real-time updates to ways to make things easier.

This is the same principle Lessig said. Free creative activity permits the access of various people and promotes participation and continues to produce other creations. We need to acknowledge the work of others and think about the extent to which we can collaborate with others.

I think that recognizing that information is power, and making it accessible to everyone, will be a great help for society's development.

How do capitalism and intellectual property rights prevent freedom of knowledge sharing? And what kind of attitude should we show in this situation?

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