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minus-square@RedditWandererlinkEnglish5•8 months agoWas the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•8 months agoFor the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months agoI mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-28 months agoOh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.
Was the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?
For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.
I mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.
Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.