On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Greg Kuperberg wrote: > > what gives you the impression that > > this Forum is trying to prevent companies from doing whatever they > > like? > > What you said originally was: > >sh> The Elsevier policy of publicly archiving pre-refereeing preprints >sh> could be a good first step towards the optimal and inevitable, but it >sh> is also possible that it is intended as a Trojan Horse,... > > I think it's divisive to speculate that someone else's e-print archive is > a Trojan Horse. It's true that I'm not sure that the CPS is compatible > with Elsevier's mission of maximizing profit. But let's give it the > benefit of the doubt.
Good. Both sides of the question have been aired. (Please distinguish my actions as moderator, when I invoke cloture, from the expression of my own views on this topic -- which carry no more weight then anyone else's ex officio.) Stevan Harnad