Public Library of Science Launches

limbicsystem writes "The first issue of the free journal Public Library of Science Biology hits the presses tonight. With Lawrence Lessig on the Board, the PLOS team are taking the Creative Commons to the world of science publishing and hope to compete with the big-name journals Science and Nature. The move towards freely-available scientific journals is supported by major funding bodies who are tired of seeing their grant money spent on subscriptions to commercial journals that can cost thousands of dollars a year. PLOS-Biology is available online at plos.org. The inagural issue has an essay by the executive director of the creative commons, Glen Otis Brown. Oh, and it's all running on Linux ;)"

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Oh great - it's running Linux

[gazbo]

Is that supposed to be impressive? I mean sure it's nice that Linux is starting to be a viable alternative to Windows and all, but surely this is hardly a great ambassador.

All it's doing is storing some texts and then displaying them on screen. It doesn't even need a TCP stack as there's no webserver and hence networking - it could have run on DOS 3 with a Foxpro backend for heaven's sake!

Well, not all of it is running on linux

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I guess that should read that the bits that are actually working are running on linux