The underlying issue here is the marketing and selling of intellectual
property paid for by the taxpayer. Everbody knows this but certain people
still want to make a dance around it. ICSD as well as ICDD are no charities
but package data of the public domain and sell the package with the data at
Alan:
I feel compelled to make several points in connection with the thread
concerning database/software costs. As you suggested, it is important to
place costs in an accurate context.
A new customer license for the PDF-2 is $6,100. But this is only for the
first year. ICDD produces updates e
Alan Hewat wrote :
>I agree that the PDF is too expensive (even tho' ICDD point out that it
>is only 6 cents for each of the 115,000 patterns :-) and for that reason
>our lab. can't afford it either - but that's our choice too.
Not a lot of compounds are synthesized at ILL, which explains that
Ron,
I suspect you are criticising the wrong people when you complain about
the high cost of Oxford Cryosystems Search-Match CSM software.
CSM apparently uses the ICDD powder diffraction file PDF, the product
of another (American) organisation, which is indeed quite expensive.
(~$6000 I b
