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Mike,<BR>
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On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 21:04 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
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Ok...
A LOT of you on this list know me an many of those know my option of Dan
Berstein. To say we're not generally on the same page would send out
howls of laughter in some quarters and shivers of fear in others.
All that being said... If what he is accusing the IEEE of is even
remotely true, we should sit up and take notice. If you are an IEEE
member of Computer Society member, you may wish to let them know just
how you feel about this.
<A HREF="http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html">http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html</A>
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I think this is the general policy of most academic journals; copyright must assigned to them with specific exceptions. This has been true for a long time, pre-Internet. Before the Internet there was no other reasonably efficient method of distributing papers. The problem now is the Internet is a very disruptive technology and creates problems for many distributors of information, music, movies, etc. The only value of any academic journal is peer review and it may be questionable in some areas if that is of value.
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I take what ever Dan says with a really big grain of salt but this
time... I just don't know. I may have to agree with him...
Regards,
Mike
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<FONT SIZE="4">Jay Lozier</FONT><BR>
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