Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions

Re:Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subsc... by DoctorOetker on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:03PM (#17921904)

what they are saying is that it would be a personal decision, like choosing what to drink, some home-made tea or a coke from the vending machine. you choose if you edit yourself, or spend part of your paycheck to delegate the task

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Re:Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subsc... by _emacsomancer_ on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:06PM (#17922932)

Word processors take a long time to learn to use well, with the time invested paying back much lower dividends than learning to use (La)TeX well. That is what I meant.

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Re:Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subsc... by DoctorOetker on Thursday September 06, 2018 @12:47AM (#17923931)

I fully agree learning (La)TeX is superior of "word processors" which is a bit of a glorified name for invisible markup, it is seldom a good idea to dumb down on the user.

I misread your "I never understand this argument." as not understanding what consp wrote, "this" was a bit ambiguous, and I originally thought you meant "I'm the scientist, let me do science instead of communicating clearly what I did and observed" but now I see "this" referred to the argument consp quoted. So we are both agreeing with him. Add to that that I was confusing a sibling comment with what consp wrote. :)

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