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Doesn't it seem incongruous at best (and perhaps illegal)
for 'pay-walled' exclusive edu-factories to take unethical
advantage of open-source platforms?

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On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Simon Biggs wrote:

> Yes, my mistake. I should have said P2P publication sharing platform. It's
> target is the domain currently dominated by Thomson but with an open source
> ethic. However, it does have a premium mode. Experience suggests this is
> where the intended business model lies. That is not open source but involves
> a pay-wall. The question is whether Mendeley offers something new which
> connects with an open source ethic or not?



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