[LINK] What's Wrong with Copy Protection

[Tony Barry]

At 7:00 PM +1100 24/1/2001, KevinL wrote:
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>The days of free access to information are well and truly gone in some fields
>already, and going in others -


And rapidly increasing in others. Sure you might hold of announcing. 
There is prestige in priority.

>it's simply not seen as cost effective.  Why
>should someone fund research if the research is freely available?


Beacuse that's the way science works (I'm not talking development 
here). J. Bronowski in his book "Science and human values". 
Hutchinson, 1956 addressed this most cogently.

Tony
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