[Gllug] OSS

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, John Hearns wrote:

> Quick Googling turned up this link for the Rebel Alliance side:
> http://www.linuxmednews.com
> and
> http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-1676
> Public access medical journal.
> I think this was discussed in the Guardian yesterday. Important for the
> third world where institutions/scientists/medics can't afford
> traditional journals.

More to the point: why should data and research results that are paid 
for by the taxpayer be available to said taxpayers only through 
subscription to a very expensive journal?  They don't pay their 
reviewers.  They don't pay their authors.  What is the expensive 
subscription paying for?  Gold-plated typesetters and printing presses?

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
www.rumble.net

Arguing online is like being in the Special Olympics.
You might win, but you're still retarded. 
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