On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:47 PM, gajendra khanna <[email protected]>wrote:
> Phani > Most of the organisations/conferences aim to get money from the work being > done. > Yes, but I don't see the need of a regulatory body (no matter haow voluntary), like the IEEE. 20 years when journals were the only source of research, yes it might have made sense, but with the Internet, and esp. wikipedia, there really is no need. This is like paying for suicide > Many things are open but not free. This is true of many of the standards > as well. e.g. PCI is an open standard. IEEE12207 is a common documentation > standard which is open. However, these are not free. One needs a > subscription. Some of the big organisations have to sign up and get them. > That's the way this "open" ecosystem is operating where many doors are > closed. I don't see them making these free anytime soon. Organisations have > to get subscriptions for their employees/students at the requisite fee if > they want the details. When you go for publishing papers many of them will > take the copyright as well. So, they choose how the content/information is > regulated. If we want to play their game, we have to play with the cards > (rules) dealt. > That exactly is the point, do we need to play their game at all? And even if so, why not buy our own cards, or maybe even design them. The points you put out, are really valid ones, which are among the ones why this topic came up. But this is a push that has to be primarily from the Universities and not a forum like us. Because the bulk of the work is from there. How to change that is the question, and that's why we need inputs from faculty and students (maybe not a big force, but still one). Signing off, Hoping for a change. -- Lots o' Luv, Phani Bhushan Let not your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right - Isaac Asimov (Salvor Hardin in Foundation and Empire) Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
