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Thobr··on European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
It is not clear from article, there no word published, " All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020" and "The means are still somewhat vague but the determination to reach the goal of having all scientific articles freely accessible by 2020 is welcome,"

I can decrypt it a little bit :it would be great if European leaders cared about access to articles, but there are other possibilities for example this burocratique organization need some more finances or of we consider that magazines should be recompensed so financial group controlling some publisher is lobbing it in order to make more money, in your opinion does it make sense?

Thobr··on European leaders call for open access to all scientific papers by 2020 (2016)
Nothing I guess. I think I missed the point. The other one might be that providing free online access to already published scientific papers, all of them from the beginning of the time, it's kind of ambitious project.
Thobr··on Ask HN: What are new applications that can be built on blockchains?
You can multisignature contracts with advanced options for payment or you can gamble on predictions on future for example, both in trustless and decentralized way