Wirt Atmar  wrote or quoted:

> If someone is going to take the time and do the hard work of gathering the
> necessary supporting evidence to validate their ideas, they're not likely to
> put it up on a newsgroup and leave it at that. If what they have to say is
> true, important and truly novel, they'll want to have it appear in the most
> prestigious journal possible, where it will be given the greatest degree of
> initial credibility it might be.

If what *I* have to say is important or truly novel I want to place
it into the public domain - so that every individual on the planet
has free and unrestricted access to it as rapidly as possible.

What I *don't* want to do is copyright it - and then attempt to
*restrict* viewers to those prepared to pay for the information.

That would represent a crude attempt to limit the cirulation of what
I have to say tremendously - for the sake of making a few bucks.

I typically don't want to do that - I'd rather have a wide audience
than a tiny one.

"Prestigious journals" are actually censored, pay-per-view forums.

Basically, the existing laws create a scientific publishing circus -
where articles acquire flashy headlines and startling conclusions
which seem evidently more designed to sell the journals they are
published in than to advance science - and abstracts become the
equivalent of getting the first hit for free :-(
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