Samantha Blackmon writes,

There's been a conversation on TechRhet about Open Access scholarship of late and this morning Cory Doctorow posted a link to a paper that addresses some folks' questions of how are publishers supposed to make money if they "give away" their content. I have issue with the notion that they are giving away their content. Technically, if I contribute to CCC and they go Open Access aren't they giving away my scholarship? I don't know what everyone else gets, but the stipends that I have gotten for articles have been tokens and do not in any way reflect the blood, sweat, and tears that I put into my work...and that's okay.

I've been following that TechRhet conversation, too, although I feel that they haven't enagaged much yet with open access (seems as if open access still hasn't penetrated the discipline of computers and writing). But I did read How Free Became Open and Everything Else Under the Sun linked to by Boing Boing right after reading Tim O'Reilly's The Open Source Paradigm Shift. Good complements to each other because both suggest opening our understanding of open source to a wider spectrum which recognizes the social and economic cultural impact.