• Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    I think my irony meter just broke. The company that takes freely published papers* and paywalls them for extortionate profit is mad that that someone else is making money off free content?

    I propose a trial by mortal combat. It’s the only logical solution.

    *You’ll be hard pressed to find a published researcher who thinks well of the Elsevier distribution monopoly, and it’s even harder to find one that won’t send you a PDF copy for free if you just ask for it.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      There’s no irony there. It’s what Elsevier does. They have no qualms about looting research budgets and sabotaging science in the process. They won’t make an exception for open source AI.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4 hours

      By freely published you mean papers that are published by paying them, right?

      They take money for papers to be published, they force researchers to freely peer review, and then they paywall the fuck out of that paper. It’s one of the biggest scams I’ve ever read about, 10 years ago… Thank god computer science, math and physics (basically most STEM) have arXiv…

    • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
      6 hours

      Saint Elbakyan, please redeem us. Give us our daily papers and don’t lead us to paid open access.

      • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 hours

        I am truly hoping that they will destroy each other. These are two tumors of our civilization. One is lodged in our society and is eating our humanity and social interactions, the other is eating away our knowledge and innovation.

    • Einskjaldi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13 hours

      They also have the worst website that never works even if you have access

      • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
        5 hours

        I would agree, that some parts of the Elsevier website are quite shit but I would not come even close to saying its unusable in any form.

    • ranzispa@mander.xyzEnglish
      6 hours

      Would be great! Fuck Elsevier, may that company burn in hell.

      If I have to pick a side, I’d go for meta in this case. Elsevier has no rights to defend their ownership of research conducted with public investment.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    17 hours

    Oh look, one giant piece of shit is suing a somehow even bigger piece of shit, and we are forced to care about the outcome

    How about this outcome you mother fuckers?

    All research papers are published online and accessible for free, EXCEPT for scrapers like AI

    That would be a great outcome, and that won’t ever happen because of course not, we can’t have nice things happen, now can we.

    • Guilvareux@feddit.ukEnglish
      12 hours

      All research papers are published online and accessible for free, EXCEPT for scrapers like AI

      Oh that would be an absolute dream

  • keimevo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    Stalin suing Hitler. I’m rooting for both of them to lose.