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RE: Agreed

Thanks for emailing the link.

I am not too cheap. I don't pay for journal articles on principle. At one time journals actually did something: they did editing, typesetting and production. Now the editing and type setting is done by the author and the production is essentially free. As before, the editorial function is done by free volunteers. (I just refereed a paper yesterday.) In other words, journals are a rip-off and I won't support them unless absolutely necessary. (In this case, I already read the article because Brad mailed it to me when it originally came out. I just couldn't find it.)

I don't mind paying money to authors (or in the case of music, artists). It's just being ripped off by middlemen that bugs me. Technical standards are the worst, because all of the people that do all the work to write the standards don't get any money for their efforts. One of the reasons why the TCP/IP based Internet technology won in the marketplace was because all of the standards for the Internet are available for free downloading, encouraging additional contributions from impecunious students, etc...

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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