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munificent on Jan 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: ACM considered harmful

> However, I find this rather harsh aversion to paying a few bucks for peer-reviewed, scientific content curious.

I already paid for it. A fraction of my taxes go to funding educational organizations so that they can produce these papers.

Even then, if the $15 actually went back to the author, I'd be OK with double-dipping, but it doesn't.

me_again on Jan 25, 2011 [–]

Just because an organization receives some tax-based revenue from the government doesn't mean their operations are or can be fully-funded by that

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