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Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science by refurb on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:20AM (#27273866)
Monopoly on publishing scientific papers? How?
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Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science by type0 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @06:19AM (#27275073)
In many fields they do have a monopoly
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Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science by refurb on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @09:47AM (#27276696)
No. Anyone is free to start a journal, open source of you prefer.

What they have is the only prestigious journal in a field.

That’s like saying Apple has a monopoly on laptops.

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Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science by Bancakes on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @10:09AM (#27276941)
Apple has a monopoly on the apple logo. They certainly don't make the best phones and laptops, not by a long shot. Same thing here, most people don't really bat an eye and want curated science.
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Re:Activists mobilize to fight censorship and save open science by type0 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:33PM (#27280503)
> That’s like saying Apple has a monopoly on laptops.

They do have a monopoly on MacOS computers, some software requires to run on MacOS, in such cases users have no choice at all.

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