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> This doesn't surprise me. The whole academic publishing side of things is a royal pile of shit. Glad someone is calling them up on it.

The ACM, at least, allows authors to post copies of articles on their web pages. That's a not totally unreasonable policy (although the ACM Digital Library is pretty well locked down).

I completely agree that IEEE is evil.

Random fact: Peter Suber was my academic advisor in college! Incredibly smart and nice guy.

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> The ACM, at least, allows authors to post copies of articles on their web pages. That's a not totally unreasonable policy (although the ACM Digital Library is pretty well locked down).

Does that include valuable stuff that's buried in conference proceedings?

In fairness Peter's book is freely available online too, and sold like normal reasonably so it's not like IEEE are locking it down or anything. Definitely ridiculous pricing though.

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