David HoNov 28, 2024

Can’t help but think there might be a relationship between people complaining about paywalls and newspapers being bought by billionaires. We should be willing to pay for news because that’s how journalists get paid.

On the other hand, I'm 100% against paywalls in scientific journals. Research is almost entirely publicly funded, and scientists do all the work (have ideas, get money, research, write, review). Plus, we pay publication charges. All scientific journal articles should be open access.

Show threadSamuel Hautamäki
@davidho Also what also sucks is when standards are paywalled, how are people meant to follow a standard if it's not publicly accessible?
Nov 28, 2024 at 11:22amWeb
Show threadLinebyline→mastoart.socialNov 28, 2024

@sirobsidian @davidho Especially when said standard has the force of law.

I mean c'mon, guys, laws are exempt from copyright in the US *for a reason*.

Show threadDevin Berg Nov 29, 2024
@sirobsidian
I've grown to hate how standards are handled. I'm supposed to teach engineering standards to my students, yet I don't have access to most of them and they are very expensive.
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