One of the things I am most proud of as a Board Member and USENIX President was going free access during my time. It was bold and scary, but the right thing to do. Too bad, IEEE and ACM don't have the same values. A paywall is an invisible revenue stream and makes it easy for them to 'provide value,' but they do it one other people's work. Back when publishing was a more expensive thing for them to do, it made some sense. But it should have been a zero-sum/at-cost game. When it became the primary revenue stream for those organizations, is when they fell from grace.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:46 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

I hate the paywalls as well. Personally, if I've written something and
someone wants it, I just give it to them. Most decent authors I've
encountered do the same.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 06:04:34PM +0200, Edouard Klein wrote:
> PDFS:
> https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s12045-012-0084-x
> https://sci-hub.tw/10.1007/s12045-012-0085-9
>
> Paywalls where the money goes to people who did nothing of significance to
> advance the published works are the bane of scientific research. Sci hub
> is a useful crutch until we fix this mess. If you want to follow the
> letter of the law, don't follow these links.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Edouard.
>
> Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
>
> > Dennis Ritchie's ACM Turing Award lecture paper in Communications of
> > the ACM 27(8) 758--760 (August 1984), doi:10.1145/358198.358207 was
> > reprinted in UNIX Review 3(1) 28, 118--120, 122, (January 1985) [no
> > DOI or URL yet found], and more recently, in Resonance 17(8) 810--816
> > (August 2012) doi:10.1007/s12045-012-0091-y.
> >
> > There are two other UNIX-related papers in that issue of Resonance:
> >
> > Pramod Chandra P. Bhatt
> > UNIX: Genesis and design features
> > Resonance 17(8) 727--747 (August 2012)
> > doi:10.1007/s12045-012-0084-x
> >
> > K. Bhaskar
> > C --- Past, present, and future --- A perspective
> > Resonance 17(8) 748--758 (August 2012)
> > doi:10.1007/s12045-012-0085-9
> >
> > I do not have access to that journal's archives from my campus
> > library, so I have not seen the articles.
> >
> > In his paper, Dennis Ritchie referred to another UNIX article that I
> > did manage to track down and record in unix.bib:
> >
> > Donald Arthur Norman
> > The Truth about UNIX
> > Datamation 27(12) 139--150 (November 1981)
> > https://tinyurl.com/yyselmxq
> >
> > The original URL is 200+ characters long, and is a freely-downloadable
> > PDF of a reprint in AUUGN volume IV number I. The PDF file has
> > searchable text.
> >
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> > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 -
> > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu -
> > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org -
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