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Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by krageon on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:53AM (#29066636)
While this is cool and sort of topical, in the 90s there for sure was not a software cartel that had existed for hundreds of years. We can know this because it simply wasn't a thing for that long at that time :)
Re:It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientifi... by lejoko on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:23PM (#29072545)
Strictly speaking you’re right. I mostly intended to highlight the idea that making huge social changes was possible with a lot of collective determination; but still : IBM is only 31 years younger than Elsevier...