I am Richard W.M. Jones, a computer programmer. I have strong opinions on how we write software, about Reason and the scientific method. Consequently I am an atheist. By day I work for Red Hat on all things to do with virtualization.
My motto is "often wrong". I don't mind being wrong (I'm often wrong), and I don't mind changing my mind.
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What, the $35.95 ?
Damn right. For one of the only two scientific papers I’ve ever been involved in!
.. and it’s around $1 / 10K of paper. What possible value are Elsevier providing here? They didn’t write it. They aren’t the only people who index it.
Elsevier Boycott about 1 year ago…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/20/elsevier_academic_strike_grows/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/10/wellcome_trust_backs_scientists/
But also:
“Why Author Pays Open Access is a Bad Idea”
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5226
Thats why most folks put a prepint on arxiv and their own site.