I mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.
Comment on military industrial publishing complex
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 8 months agoWas the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research gets to profit from it gottcha.
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.