On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Leaving aside the point that this is not directly related to Python, my >> opinion is that if the authors will not make past and future papers >> freely available, not even an abstract, they should not ask for valuable >> free data from freely donated time. > > Well of course it is your time and your judgement to make, but in my > opinion even non-free scientific knowledge is better than ignorance.
When people boycott a product, it isn't because not having the product is better than having the product. That's clearly untrue: despite the reasons for the boycott, the product has some value. They boycott it because by doing so, they can get something better than <product with badness> or <nothing> -- they can get <product without badness>. (At least, in theory :) Why settle for a terrible situation, when we could be encouraging people to do better? /me has been paying too much attention to the Elsevier boycott -- Devin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
