<div>I got a little worn out keeping up with the explosion of open science
email over the holidays, especially the traffic on the open science list
run by the OKF. For the most part I deleted without reading under the
belief that time with the family is more important than obsessive
attention to email during the holiday season.</div>


<div>But I have to respond to one point from Peter Murray-Rust, with whom I
often agree - and often disagree.</div>


<div>Peter writes in his
blog,
on the idea that Open Science means loss of confidentiality:</div>