[time-nuts] Paywall rant

[Jim Palfreyman]

I'm in astrophysics and arXiv is there just for that.

Why don't others do that?

Jim


On Tuesday, 5 June 2012, Attila Kinali wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > The IEEE is particularly behind the times.  I assume it's left over from
> when
> > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the price of
> > printed stuff by a small amount.  Some of this may trace back to their
> > standards work where they could get away with high prices.
>
> Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society started to send
> out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents you legaly
> acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a few times that
> this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly allows me to do
> that didn't change anything... That and also the wording that strongly
> suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief ("illegaly"
> copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to the decision
> to cancel my subscription.
>
>
>                        Attila Kinali
> --
> It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All
> the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no
> use without that foundation.
>                 -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
>
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