RE: Who gets hurt by Open Access?

["Jan Szczepanski. Goteborgs Univ Bibl" <Jan.Szczepanski@ub.gu.se>]

Even on M25?

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/M25-motorway

A question: how much e-science can they carry nowdays?

Jan Szczepanski


At 23:55 2005-07-21, you wrote:
> There are now many more horses and ponies in Britain than before the motor
> car.
>
> Bob Campbell
> Blackwell Publishing
>
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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