[Air-l] discussion on free papers

[mboudour at upatras.gr]

I fully agree with Jeremy (and Ulla-yesterday). I'm even surprised that
such an issue has arisen in a forum like this one where most of us have
been studying all these qualitative, quantitative, ethical, political,
socio-economic,  cultural etc etc issues related to the new media. 

Really, what do we know?

--Moses

http://www.math.upatras.gr/~mboudour



On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, jeremy hunsinger wrote:

> i fully support free paper distribution, i even have a server at cddc 
> dedicated to eprints that anyone can use to distribute electronic 
> prints, aoir members and non members alike. but free and open 
> distribution must be the decision of the individual not an obligation 
> put on them because they participate in an  organization or attend a 
> conference.  i'm not into removing people's freedom to provide free 
> papers.  i'm not even into having an organization provide free papers 
> if that organization relies on the good will of its members to provide 
> those papers without the organization returning something to those 
> members in kind.  so i don't support making papers and proceedings 
> available to the world,  i don't think we've ever said we would, and i 
> don't think it is a good idea institutionally to take over those rights 
> and duties involved with intellectual ownership and electronic 
> distribution, though it is a great idea for people to do it 
> individually, as many members do already.
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