[time-nuts] Paywall rant
paul swed
paulswedb at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 13:15:21 UTC 2012
Its actully pretty pervasive these days. I hate those sights so now
carefully see what googles pointing me to before jumping if possible.
So a quick question and not to take the thread.
Anyone know if the old IRE papers might exist someplace for free?
I ran across a few of the actual magazines and for me it was actually a
good read.
Regards
Paul.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:
> I dropped my membership a couple of years ago. Every single thing cost
> money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were
> applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly
> difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing privileges
> especially when there is actually very little of direct practical use.
>
>
> On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
> Hal Murray <[1]hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> > The IEEE is particularly behind the times. I assume it's left over
> from when
> > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the
> price of
> > printed stuff by a small amount. Some of this may trace back to their
> > standards work where they could get away with high prices.
> Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society started to send
> out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents you legaly
> acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a few times that
> this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly allows me to do
> that didn't change anything... That and also the wording that strongly
> suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief
> ("illegaly"
> copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to the decision
> to cancel my subscription.
> Attila Kinali
> --
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> use without that foundation.
> -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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