• Brewchin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think my irony meter just broke. The company that takes freely published papers* and paywalls them for extortionate profit is mad that that someone else is making money off free content?

    I propose a trial by mortal combat. It’s the only logical solution.


    *You’ll be hard pressed to find a published researcher who thinks well of the Elsevier distribution monopoly, and it’s even harder to find one that won’t send you a PDF copy for free if you just ask for it.

    • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Saint Elbakyan, please redeem us. Give us our daily papers and don’t lead us to paid open access.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      There’s no irony there. It’s what Elsevier does. They have no qualms about looting research budgets and sabotaging science in the process. They won’t make an exception for open source AI.

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    2 months ago

    Never thought I’d be rooting for Elsevier but here we are ! Not sure how I feel about it…