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When Consolidation Provides Benefits as well as Market Power

Acquisitions are always designed to benefit business owners, sometimes at the expense of customers. But , as Joe Esposito and Roger Schonfeld argue, acquisitions can provide benefits to customers and end-users as well.

Naiveté Scene — Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing

Once again, the term “open” requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.