Philip Sandifer wrote:
> Well, and on top of that, publishing is a commercial enterprise. Even  
> academic presses make decisions on what to publish in part based on  
> what they think they can avoid completely losing their shirts on. So  
> by relying too heavily on the question of what is published, we inject  
> a really problematic commercial bias into what we do.
>   
The irony is that many who would ignore the commercial realities of 
publishing can be the same ones who would man the barricades against 
advertising on Wikipedia, or argue for the purity of non-commercial 
licences.

Ec

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