Because Bawolff, the entire thread or sub-thread was predicated on the notion that *we* should work with *them*.
Are we going to start giving other closed systems privileged access as well?
I'm sure other systems would like such an opportunity.

To me, the mere fact that their *content* is open (whatever that means in actuality) isn't enough, for me to want to work with them.
The system they have in place is too disjoint from our system, for me to advocate working with them.
The solution I proposed would change that.