We are all interacting with this HN website over technology whose very underpinnings was the assumption its freely available -The protocol stack, the application-to-protocol bindings, the definitions which a program source code represents, the compiler tools..
Am I alone in seeing the contradictions, of people defending for-profit science publishing, using a vehicle whose very existence is predicated on government funded science and technology coming with 'its free' as a requirement?
Am I alone in seeing the contradictions, of people defending for-profit science publishing, using a vehicle whose very existence is predicated on government funded science and technology coming with 'its free' as a requirement?