[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 73, Issue 28

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Daniel R. Tobias<dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:58 -0400, wjhonson@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com
> wrote:
>
>> You have completely ignored the requirement that I am here *solely*
>> referring to items which live, online, behind subscription walls.  If
>> the item is free, then it does not.  So that removes the majority of
>> your counter-argument.
>
> How come online "for-pay" stuff is to be excluded by your proposed
> rule, but not on-paper "for pay" stuff?  Printed books, magazines,
> and newspapers are not generally free.

I was wondering that, but then I realised that on-paper pay stuff is
generally available (after a lag) from libraries. Which are in theory
free in many places if you don't mind paying for transport to get
there, and remember to return books before the fines start. And some
libraries give people access to various online journal archives. Of
course, public libraries are generally less useful than university
libraries, and the copyright libraries in theory have copies of most
everything printed, but still.

Carcharoth