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"Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model." If good things could come out of Covid-19 then this along with a ten to one-hundredfold speed up
by hilbert42 7y ago
"Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model."
If good things could come out of Covid-19 then this along with a ten to one-hundredfold speed up in the development of vaccines etc. ought to be among them.
That said, I've been around too long to know that a small percentage of the population are just too greedy to let that happen. Even if laws were rushed in to mandate that whilst it's fresh in everyone's mind, sooner or later they'll be usurped in the same way that late-19th Century anti-monopoly laws have been nuked these days.
Even though these old laws have already been on the statutes for over a century, these days no lawmaker or bureaucrat has the gumption or guts to enforce them against Big Tech.
If such a proposal were to ever get off the ground then tragically the same would happen all over again.