How long it has to be before it is understood that information should be free to be accessed by anyone who either wants, or needs that information.
Information is not something that can be owned in the sense you own a car, a computer, or things of that nature. Informations is more of a platform on which individuals, and societies, relay to take decisions or make things happen.
The value is more valuable depending on its use. And is more valuable in direct proportion to how many people can use it, or put it to work on a way that is beneficial to them. So, information is a resource that should be at the disposal of the society at large in a way it can be used by any member of the society.
It should be allowed to flow freely among all, with any restriction on the flow being imposed by each individual as he sees fit. No one else should decide who access, and how, any piece of information.
All informations should be stored in open standards, so that no single entity has the key on how the information can be retrieved or distributed. Each individual has the right to access and store whatever information he needs in any medium he prefers to do so.
Every standard that is used to store information, should be free of any kind restriction that impedes the free flow of information from one individual to another. And all hardware that can be used to play back the information should be able to reproduce it, so that information can be shared and consumed as each individual sees fit to do.
In essence, information should be considered the ultimate common good. We all own it, and should be free to share and use it as we all see fit.
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