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Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Leaving aside the point that this is not directly related to Python, my
>> opinion is that if the authors will not make past and future papers
>> freely available, not even an abstract, they should not ask for valuable
>> free data from freely donated time.
>
> Well of course it is your time and your judgement to make, but in my
> opinion even non-free scientific knowledge is better than ignorance.

When people boycott a product, it isn't because not having the product
is better than having the product. That's clearly untrue: despite the
reasons for the boycott, the product has some value. They boycott it
because by doing so, they can get something better than <product with
badness> or <nothing> -- they can get <product without badness>. (At
least, in theory :)

Why settle for a terrible situation, when we could be encouraging
people to do better?

/me has been paying too much attention to the Elsevier boycott

-- Devin

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Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-23 05:51 -0700
  Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-23 17:44 -0400
    Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 01:30 +0000
      Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:51 -0400
        Freedom and Data (was Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow) rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 20:56 -0700
          Re: Freedom and Data (was Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:28 +1000
            Re: Freedom and Data (was Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow) rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:26 -0700
        Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 05:34 +0000
          Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:56 -0700
            Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-24 00:26 -0700
            Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 08:33 +0000
      Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:19 +1000
  Re: Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-07-23 17:01 -0500
  Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-07-23 15:09 -0700
    Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-23 15:14 -0700
      Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2012-07-23 20:01 -0400
    Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-23 15:14 -0700
  Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-23 18:14 -0400

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