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5 WhoBenefits fromthePublicGood… 89 Ewout terHaar obtained his Ph.D. in condensedmatter physics from theUniversity of Leiden. Heworks since 2006withEducational Technology at theUniversity of SãoPaulo. Miguel SaidVieira is a professor at the FederalUniversity ofABC (UFABC,Brasil), where he works at theCenter forEducationalTechnologies and teaches in thePublicPolicies andSciences andHumanities programs.His research dealswith the relations between knowledge, technology, collaboration and commodification, with a special interest in the theme of commons (including theoreticalapproachesandspecificpracticessuchasOER, freesoftwareandopenaccess), and the areas of STS and philosophy of science.His publications can be found at http://impropriedades. wordpress.com. TiagoC.SoaresholdsaPh.D. inHistoryofEconomics fromtheUniversityofSãoPaulo.Along- time activist, he’s been involvedwith theOpenEducation andFree/Libre andOpenSourceSoft- waremovements for nearly twodecades.He is an associatewith theUNESCOChair inDistance Education (Universidade daBrasília). OpenAccess This chapter is licensed under the terms of theCreativeCommonsAttribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation,distributionandreproduction inanymediumorformat,as longasyougiveappropriate credit to theoriginal author(s) and thesource,providea link to theCreativeCommons licenseand indicate if changesweremade. The images or other third partymaterial in this chapter are included in the chapter’sCreative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulationorexceeds thepermitteduse,youwillneed toobtainpermissiondirectly from thecopyrightholder.