RE: Who gets hurt by Open Access?

["Campbell Robert" <Robert.Campbell@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com>]

There are now many more horses and ponies in Britain than before the motor
car.

Bob Campbell
Blackwell Publishing

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sloan, Bernie
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Subject: RE: Who gets hurt by Open Access?

I agree with Toby Green.

Jan Szczepanski said, of carriage manufacturers and the oil lamp
industry:

"Large or small didn't matter they all disappeared."

It's not all that clear cut.

Fisher Body was one of the largest carriage manufacturers. They made the
switch from making carriages to making auto bodies, first as a
free-standing company and then as a division of GM. Fisher Body merged
with some other GM divisions in 1984. While there technically isn't a
Fisher Body division in GM now, their work continues.

As far as oil lights go, Consolidated Edison started out as the New York
Gas Light Company. They haven't exactly disappeared. (OK, so they weren't
exactly an oil light business, but the point is the same...gas lighting
was largely replaced by electric lighting, but the businesses prevailed).

Bernie Sloan