On Jan 12, 2013 8:07 PM, "Gregory Maxwell" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming > > domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading yet > > disallows modification or redistribution. > > This is absolutely the case, but at the same time— claims, never heard > by big names negotiating with jstor before, that they were planning it > all along notwithstanding— it does show sensitivity to negative > attention.
The JSTOR announcement is dated January 9th. If they were showing sensitivity to negative attention, it was only in response to matters having reached the point they did *before* Aaron's suicide. Your move, JSTOR. --mlp
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