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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