Think of the bigger picture. Is it okay to monetarily starve one of the US remai...

		warmblood on Sept 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity ... Think of the bigger picture. Is it okay to monetarily starve one of the US remaining prominent scientific bodies because "they can always just charge money for their papers"? Why reward ugly hacks when it's much cheaper and better to solve the root problem?

I don't disagree, but solving the root problem is way off in the future.