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RE: My full comments to Nature News on Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub
You didn't want to submit to Nature as a student but now they come to you for commentary, cool and ironic. (I watched the PhD dissertation on your blog :-p )
Thanks! Yeah I was stoked the live stream / recording worked. It was from my iPhone, so the fact that it didn't go offline or break was a miracle in its own right.
For those who don't know my view, it's that scholarly publications should be freely available and openly licensed, since they're usually publicly funded. Nature is the most prestigious journal, but still applies the outdated subscription model to most of its articles. It's sad that much of the most impactfull science gets locked behind paywalls with licenses that prohibit sharing and reusing the content. Yuck!
Thanks for sharing this @dhimmel, I've passed it on to some friends in the medical field who I expect would be very curious to know more about what you are doing. Great work!