[time-nuts] Paywall rant

[J. Forster]

Good luck.

About 20 years ago, I bought out the entire library of a local R&D company
for $10, including well over 50' of 7' high shelves of professional
journals.

(There were a number of books I wanted and I got more than my money's
worth on those.}

Anyway, I tried to sell the journals without a single nibble. Nobody
wanted them. Luckily I bought the library on condition of not having to
take what I didn't want, so didn't have to dealo with several tons of
useless paper.

There might be takers as a donation in India or something, IF you pay to
ship them there. That's not for me.

FWIW,

-John

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> I may still have the option to get something like 600 to 800 lbs of
> IRE publications.
> I think in South Dakota. If anyone is game/interested I can check.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:15 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Its actully pretty pervasive these days. I hate those sights so now
>> carefully see what googles pointing me to before jumping if possible.
>> So a quick question and not to take the thread.
>> Anyone know if the old IRE papers might exist someplace for free?
>> I ran across a few of the actual magazines and for me it was actually a
>> good read.
>> Regards
>> Paul.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Â  I dropped my membership a couple of years ago. Â Every single thing
>>> cost
>>> Â  money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were
>>> Â  applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly
>>> Â  difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing privileges
>>> Â  especially when there is actually very little of direct practical
>>> use.
>>>
>>>
>>> Â  On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> Â  On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
>>> Â  Â Hal Murray <[1]hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>>> Â  > The IEEE is particularly behind the times. I assume it's left over
>>> Â  from when
>>> Â  > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the
>>> Â  price of
>>> Â  > printed stuff by a small amount. Some of this may trace back to
>>> their
>>> Â  > standards work where they could get away with high prices.
>>> Â  Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society started to
>>> send
>>> Â  out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents you legaly
>>> Â  acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a few times
>>> that
>>> Â  this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly allows me to
>>> do
>>> Â  that didn't change anything... That and also the wording that
>>> strongly
>>> Â  suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief
>>> Â  ("illegaly"
>>> Â  copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to the
>>> decision
>>> Â  to cancel my subscription.
>>> Â  Attila Kinali
>>> Â  --
>>> Â  It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All
>>> Â  the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of
>>> no
>>> Â  use without that foundation.
>>> Â  -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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