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Publishers' Attack Free Government Sites

Posted by Hemos on from the going-after-the-information dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After succeding in getting the DOE's PubScience shutdown the Software and Information Industry Association and publishers' are now targeting more. If the trend continues local tax dollars will increasingly be spent to buy access to information the federal government used to provide."

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  1. it's simple by jmu1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They gotta eat too. I'd rather have my thick juicy steak than the stale bread they're handing out down the street. So, I'll gather up what knowledge I can, and charge people for it. They have cows. They have cooks. Sounds like to me we can make a good trade on that. But hey, the only system that works is socialism where the greedy elite can simply hoard everything tothemselves and not even allow for it to be charged for. Or hey, they can sell it to other countries while they are systematically exterminating their constituency. Mmmm... dictatorship! Is there nothing it can't do?