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Re:ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile by pxeger1 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:16PM (#30946516)
ACM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. It's not like they're profiteering (cough Elsevier). They have to cover costs somehow.
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Re:ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile by majewsky on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:29AM (#30955007)
Isn't that what membership fees are for? If they came out and said "our entire publication catalog is free, but to cover the costs of hosting we are raising membership prices from 100$ to 105$ a year", I don't think any of their members would mind.

Also, if you don't have hosting capacities, just seed the yearly archives out as torrent files. I'm sure there are some nerds out there who will voluntarily build a frontend for that.

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Re:ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile by pxeger1 on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:32AM (#30966505)
If everything was open access, then the memberships would have much less of a value proposition.
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