Editing Open publishing (section)

== Related ideas ==
Arnison's idea of open publishing<ref name="Maffew_OpenPublishing" /> can be compared to [[Eric S. Raymond]]'s point of view in the [[open source software]] versus [[free software]] debate. Given a large enough audience of peers, readers and/or commentators, supporters of open publishing hope or expect that almost all problematic content will quickly be noticed, highlighted and fixed. [[Linus's law]] could in this be context be described as Arnison's Law, reworded as, "Given enough eyeballs, problematic content is shallow".

The term "open publishing" is intended to be much more open than the more restricted idea of [[open access publishing]], in which the publishing of material organized in such a way that there is no financial or other barrier to the reader, but there is no claim for transparency in the methods and procedures of publishing. In other words, open publishing is [[open access]], but open access publishing is only sometimes "open publishing".