On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote:
> I love it, although I suspect that 1B wouldn't be enough. The industry of > for-profit academic publishing is probably worth much more than that, and > it won't give up easily. > > Not that I don't support the general idea, but the resistance will be hard. > I agree with you, but we're not starting from scratch. It's more than 30 years that the Open Access movement is pushing for a new scholarship, a lot of battles have been won, and there is a huge amount of literature, documentation and experience, about that. 1B is nothing, compared to the billions of profit made by the company. But I reckon it would be enough, properly spent, to push a single point of failure of the system. Of course, I don't know it yet, and I don't have a plan right now. But I'm quite confident that 1B $ could do the trick. Aubrey _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
