Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All

houghi writes "The register reports how the Dutch open up their research to the rest of the world. It goes on to tell that commercial scientific publishers such as Elsevier Science are not happy with it. Will other countries and universities follow, or will they stick to the idea that knowledge is a commodity?"

Comments

Unfortunately

[Timesprout]

500 of clog development research and technology is no use to anyone but Dr Scholl

Re:Salute the Dutch

[SilentSage]

You fucking idiot if you had read the article you would have a clue WTF you are talking about. This article was about the high cost of PUBLISHING in scientific journals. Not one word was said about Intellectual Property dumbass. So before we get another bout of Marxist slashdrone mentality at least know what you are talking about.

Re:Taxpayers' money

[KiloByte]

Before you call me a "communist" (hell, I'm the opposite), don't forget that having the public giving anyone favours for free is wrong. The idea of having the state encourage people to have ten kids and no job because they can get 90% of the minimal wage for nothing is just repulsive to me -- and living off welfare is a popular model of life.

Having the taxpayers fund anything that's of no benefit to the public is embezzlement. Be that Mr. Sixpack's new TV, the freebie research for a commercial pharmaceutic company, or, the worst of all, the favours friends of politicians get. No parasites, please.