RE: Elsevier profit

[Harvey Brenneise <HBrenne@MPHI.org>]

There has been some discussion of this, I believe.  I think a good
argument can be made that taxpayers should not be asked twice to pay for
the same thing.  On the other hand, I have very low expectations from an
administration that values monopolies, profiteering and tax breaks for the
rich in the name of "the marketplace" above the needs of the people.  
Seems like someone once called this "voodoo economics."

Harvey Brenneise
hbrenne@mphi.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Simboli [mailto:brs4@lehigh.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:02 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Elsevier profit

The following is an intriguing idea. Has it ever been entertained or
discussed in any way? Brian Simboli

	"Frankly, if the US Government simply dictated that all research 
	resulting from federal grants had to be freely available to the 
	public who paid for it would put a big hole in publisher 
	monopolies."
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