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Unless publishing gatekeepers adopt drastically more equitable practices and become partners in disseminating knowledge, they will continue to lose ground to open access alternatives, legal or otherwise.

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If $1 of public money was involved in a study, its results should be public domain.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay but then how will the corporate goblins exploit us by land lording it?

[–] anzo@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Let's have the scientists' and governments' patents sold to them for pennies!! /s

No, no, the scientists owe the companies. For, uh.

The scientists owe the companies!

[–] theoriginalcows@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the sex workers they can afford from landlording are hotter than most scientists

[–] Sparkles@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

Psyhub got me through my fieldwork.

Piracy! For SCIENCE!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Funny how that plays out, considering the data collection of LLMs have to dance around the copyright issue.

Not that I agree with many of people that say looking at a picture and adjusting weights is considered "stealing an image".