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Hi,
I'm not on that list. And yes, I studied it. My conclusion at the time
was that the little money that the DL generates, that is not to pay the
sales and support staff who works for the DL, is for supporting the
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> Further, ACM does many positive things beyond archiving articles.
According to Crista Lopes on Twitter (I'm not sure if she's on this list):
"I studied @TheOfficialACM’s finances a few years ago, when I was
Treasurer
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Dear all,
On 22.12.19 19:18, jan Vitek wrote:
Andrew,
One problem here is that ACM is financing a whole lot of other
things besides publishing our papers with the DL’s revenue.
They like to call those things their
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The reasoning behind point #1 is "If someone doesn't think the
government should pass a law prohibiting X, then they support X." To be
blunt, this is a fallacy.
It would be interesting to see the numbers on point
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> It feels a bit facile to bash the ACM for signing onto this letter.
> The letter does not mean that they oppose making publications freely
> available; in fact, I believe open access is a goal for ACM.
I understand it
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Dear Andrew (and list),
I believe open access is a goal for ACM
This is what the ACM says, but this is not their actions suggest. Some
examples:
1. They signed this letter. (They defend their choice in
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Dear Roberto (and list),
The new ACM Open model is based on the core idea of saving the licensing
revenue of the ACM by shifting costs from their many customers (including
in particular companies) to only the
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Thanks for standing up for this. Epic Games (home to few type theorists but
many ACM SigGraph participants) will make our support for authors' right to
freely distribute their work known to ACM.
-Tim
On Fri, Dec 20,
