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Patents (the way they are used today) are often mentioned on HN as something pretty damaging to progress, but these efforts of maximum monetization of the scien
by wallaBBB 5y ago
Patents (the way they are used today) are often mentioned on HN as something pretty damaging to progress, but these efforts of maximum monetization of the scientific publishing industry are no less of an evil.
If you can donate to SciHub, and if you're publishing look for open alternatives to Elsevier's claw.
- MayeulC 5y agoAt least patents expire after a while, and they are public. They mostly slow down commercial application of new discoveries. Copyright doesn't really expire in some places, or after a very long time. I believe this is way more damaging to progress. Especially for publication, since science works better in a tight feedback loop (and it doesn't work as well if... authors die before others can reply to their papers).