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I only looked briefly at the article, but it sounds pretty disgusting
that IEEE should refuse to publish public domain papers. I used to be
a member of IEEE, but never published with them. I don't understand
all the legal odds and ends. However, as a consumer and amateur
researcher, I've long felt that the public needs more access to
academic papers and such. I can't tell you how many times I've been
doing research on a topic of interest, like alternate energy, and have
come across some great paper on the topic, only to find it's in an
academic database and they want $40 - $100 for it. Usually, it's not
worth the price to me and I just go elsewhere. I think more "open
source" academic papers would be great.<br>
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And another thing, our tax dollars fund research at our national labs,
right? So, if they've come up with a great way to harness some energy
source (just for example), and I want to use the technology in a
business, why do they (the national lab) have a patent on it and why do
I have to pay a license fee to use what my tax dollars already funded?<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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On 9/30/2011 9:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
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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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html">http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html</a>
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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