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US Research Open Access In Peril
luceth writes "Several years ago, the U.S. National Institutes of Health instituted a policy whereby publications whose research was supported by federal funds were to be made freely accessible a year after publication. The rationale was that the public paid for the research in the first place. This policy is now threatened by legislation introduced by, you guessed it, a Congresswoman who is the largest recipient of campaign contributions from the scientific publishing industry. The full text of the bill, H.R. 3699, is available online."
I read that as: US Research Open Access only in Perl
Jehovah be praised, Oracle was not selected
Well, Elsevier is a Dutch company, and the Netherlands has a GINI quotient of 0.650 against the USA's 0.801. Which reminds me of what my old Bolshie Uncle Ivan used to say. He said, "Kid, nobody believes in socialism. Nobody believes in capitalism either. It's socialism for *me*, capitalism for *you*."
Anyhow, to be fair, Rep. Maloney was only helping out a constituent [1].
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1: constituent: n. A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of an elected official.
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I'm not sure which is worse: all of our government are whores, or all of our government are cheap whores.
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