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摘要

Proprietary data formats may be legally defensible but open standards can be a better spur for innovation. A historian of science and computing, and a scholar whose PhD thesis was on "professionalization of cooking among domestic servants in eighteenth-century France", might seem unlikely characters to find at the centre of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. But that is exactly what has happened in the suit brought against George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, by Thomson Reuters, the company probably best known for its ISI science indicators.