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minus-square@RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoWas the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?
minus-square@mryessir@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoFor the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.
minus-square@jkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoI mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.
minus-square@GreatDong3000@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-21 year agoOh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.
Was the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?
For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.
I mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.
Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.