Both ACM and IEEE are publishers at heart. IEEE likes to boast that they publish almost a third of the world's technical literature.
It's instructive to look at their annual reports, where sources and uses of funds are documented. Follow the money, always. Joe Gwinn Ref: <http://www.ieee.org/about/today/index.html> From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Date: 06/05/2012 03:53 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Paywall rant Sent by: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com In message <20120605072656.314c1800...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>, Hal Mu rray writes: >The IEEE is particularly behind the times. As is ACM. I'm told through the grapewine that digital subscriptions is a major part of their budget, so nothing will be opened unless with a crowbar. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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