• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Was the article really written for free or was it written with tax-payer funded government grants?

    • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.

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      6 months ago

      I mean, ok, then, I, a taxpayer, want free access to the document I paid for.

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      6 months ago

      Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.