[time-nuts] Paywall rant
Peter Gottlieb
nerd at verizon.net
Tue Jun 5 12:12:15 UTC 2012
I dropped my membership a couple of years ago. Every single thing cost
money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were
applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly
difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing privileges
especially when there is actually very little of direct practical use.
On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
Hal Murray <[1]hmurray at megapathdsl.net> 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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