On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bill White <bill.white at griggsinst.com>wrote:
> On 2011-02-17, at 12:40 , Wojtek S wrote:
> [WS:] But you can still buy books online where it is much easier to find
> > obscure titles than at Borders.
> >
> > What concerns me more is not the disappearance of brick and mortar
> > bookstores - even though I loved them for their ambiance - but the
> > disappearance of print media.
>
> I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but I worry about this as well, and have
> been for some time. I read this short article:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
>
> in 1997 when it was first published in the Communications of the ACM (a
> somewhat obscure journal for academic computer scientists). I thought it
> was overblown then, but I'm changing my mind. The author, Richard
> Stallman,
> is a genius and a visionary, but at the same time a certifiable lunatic.
> He's certainly incorrect about scientific literature, which is becoming
> freely available more and more often with arxiv.org and plos.org.
>
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