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Re:Is the business of scientific publishing bad for science? by santaclaus on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:17AM (#14660971)
> Aside from that, they do what, exactly?

In CS the ACM organizes conferences... beyond that they are an effectively useless organization.

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Re:Is the business of scientific publishing bad for science? by darawk on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:31AM (#14661014)
Ya, but the ACM is also a professional organization. That's a fine service to provide, but it doesn't need to be comingled with publishing.
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