There's an xkcd comic in this week's Science, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/58.full, titled the rise of open access. I hope it's open access.
-- rec -- On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/3/13 3:15 PM, glen wrote: > >> But when you have to pay for something, immediate, tight loop, >> expectations help identify flaws faster than when you identify something >> "free" as worthless. >> > For software, if one has immediate, tight loop expectations, it is close > to already having it. But normally there are a bunch of unstated or > unknown expectations that where the payer just wants to inherit the best > practice (assuming there is such a thing). I think they often do _not_ > know what those practices are, or _really_ what they want. They just want > the `best' thing. So, in the more-money-then-brains or > more-money-than-time, they want some authority (or someone holding IP) to > essentially tell them what they want and be on their team. This is > appealing to people that have resources (esp. unaccountable resources) > because it makes them feel like they know or control something because they > bought something. They may define "free" as worthless because they are only > instrumental via capital. (I recognize it may be useful to just spend > money and see the broad outlines of the state-of-the-art, and then go back > and actually learn about the apparently interesting or relevant bits.) > > Marcus > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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