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the risk that a free rider might use open source to attain
competitive success that he/she did not deserve.
Notes
1. This essay, for instance, does not address the
important objection that open source debating will
reduce the incentive for researchers to go back and
re-read the original source in its entirety. We did not
exclude this argument because it is not an important
objection, but simply because it was not a part of the
original squad deliberation. For more discussion of
the advantages and disadvantages of open source
debating broadly, see Casey Harrigans essay Open
Source Debating: A Difficult Decision.
2. Although the wiki is no longer the central location for
open source documents, it can still be accessed at:
http://deaconsource.wikispaces.com/.
3. In high school, Bronx Science High Schools Andrew
Markoff and Zach Elias were one of the first teams
to post the full text of their evidence online. As the
introduction notes, Andrew Markoff would later
become the first team to win the NDT debating open
source. In college debate, Gonzaga Universitys Abe
Corrigan and James Joseph were one of the first
teams to post the full text of their first affirmative
constructive online.
4. The NDCAs open evidence project can be found
here: http://www.debatecoaches.org/page/openevidence-project/.