Crack seems a little harsh. We just need a well-written article in SI quoting Katz and his incendiary rants about New York City:
"I hate attending Linux conferences in New York. You have to sit on the number 9 train, next to some NT admin who's on the way to OpenView training..."
Oh boy, get ready with your batteries.
This post is a great knee jerk reaction to Brill posting the theses online. However, I've read about this issue before, and I'm quite sure that most universities require you to partially sign away publication rights to your thesis. Under current law, what Brill is doing is perfectly legal, so comparisons to "burning hundreds of CDs" are misguided. Whether or not this is an ethical practice on the part of Brill is something else entirely, and I agree that it must be stopped at once.
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Crack seems a little harsh. We just need a well-written article in SI quoting Katz and his incendiary rants about New York City: "I hate attending Linux conferences in New York. You have to sit on the number 9 train, next to some NT admin who's on the way to OpenView training..." Oh boy, get ready with your batteries.
Moderate this up! Sports references on Slashdot are as hard to find as decent songs on a Motley Crue album.
Good point. Maybe the world IS evolving and I'm just stuck in 1995.
This post is a great knee jerk reaction to Brill posting the theses online. However, I've read about this issue before, and I'm quite sure that most universities require you to partially sign away publication rights to your thesis. Under current law, what Brill is doing is perfectly legal, so comparisons to "burning hundreds of CDs" are misguided. Whether or not this is an ethical practice on the part of Brill is something else entirely, and I agree that it must be stopped at once.