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TxtEdMacs

Mar 28, 2009
8:52 AM EDT 		for a paper published after I left a university, I have not found a way to view this paper published by a limited imprint. Even a friend at a major university was unable to get a borrowed copy for me ...
ColonelPanik

Mar 28, 2009
5:21 PM EDT 		Holding knowledge hostage is a crime! The "Scholarly Journal" scam has cost the universities and students huge amounts of money.

MIT is leading education into the future.
bigg

Mar 29, 2009
7:48 AM EDT 		"Holding knowledge hostage is a crime!"

It should be. Our tax dollars support a lot of the locked-up-tight research. And the Baye-Dole Act lets them use our tax dollars to do research that leads to patents.
jacog

Mar 30, 2009
6:50 AM EDT 		Reminds me a of a buzzphrase that used to do the rounds back in the day: "Information wants to be free"
ColonelPanik

Mar 30, 2009
1:40 PM EDT 		jacog: Don't we all want to be free?

Information wants to be free and accessible!
gus3

Mar 30, 2009
1:49 PM EDT 		I don't want to be free. I want an hourly rate. I still have bills to pay.
herzeleid

Mar 30, 2009
1:53 PM EDT 		Larry wall once said that on the contrary, information wants to be valuable.

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