7 Apr
2021
7 Apr
'21
1:25 a.m.
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
I have been a loyal nonmember of ACM ever since the
CACM was converted
from a journal to a magazine. Usenix didn't strike quite such a decisive
blow when it abandoned Computing Systems. ;login: remains as a Cheshire
grin. It remains to be seen whether I'll continue to scan it in its
non-tactile form.
I quit the ACM when they jacked up their fees to the point of being
unaffordable (and refused to justify it when asked); that, and they were
no longer relevant since I stopped working in academia and went to
industry instead.
Same story with ACS and IEEE (although they made for useful tax
deductions).
-- Dave