The growth of business and profits made by the commercial international journals is very high as compared to many other businesses. These journals are making the contributors their slave by offering to sell the paper online and sharing some profit margin.

Knowledge sharing should be open. Earlier the access and availability of journals, magazines and books were limited to the libraries which have subscribed or purchased them. With the availability of digital meďia, knowledge access is not limited. The cost of sharing any resource material is almost nothing. The person by sharing knowledge with a maximum number of people should be happier. On this earth, bad things and less useful things are more shared than useful things. The very existence and progress of human beings are because of knowledge sharing. Open Knowledge gives freedom to everyone. Till date, I have declared all my writings as Open Knowledge for the common good.

I was reading this headline - ‘Victory again a scheme involving the unlawful copying, sale and distribution of scientific journals,’ if knowledge is declared open we would never see such a headline again.

Some doctors prescribe the exclusive or less commonly available medicines to the patients. They have an unethical nexus with the medical shop and the medicines manufacturing companies. This exclusiveness for personal gain is wrong. And it is even a greater fault if they prescribe the less useless and not necessary medicines.