Re: Is Harvard's OA Policy pure bragging?

From: Bernard Rentier <brentier_at_ULG.AC.BE>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:31:56 +0100

Indeed, Mr Graf's recurrent, outrageous, aggressive and above all
useless comments are becoming very tiring on this Forum. Freedom of
expression is a cherished value and should be preserved. However I am
impressed with the moderator's patience: there are definitely some
contributions that should be "moderated".

Bernard Rentier

Le 22 mars 2010 à 03:38, Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> a
écrit :

> On 20-Mar-10, at 9:57 PM, Klaus Graf wrote:
>
>> A short update on the Knoll case:
>>
>> http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6250326/
>>
>> Klaus Graf
>
> For Prof. Shieber's remarkably patient and polite reply to Prof.
> Graf's prior posting along much the same lines, see http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5918219/
> (I think Prof. Shieber's reply pretty much covers Prof. Graf.'s latest
> installment too.)
>
> There are constructive criticisms one might make of some of the
> current implementational details of Harvard's policy -- http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/364-guid.html
> -- but certainly not the way Prof. Graf goes about it; moreover,
> chances are that Prof. Graf would continue in much the same tone even
> once those implementational details were fixed, since they are not the
> target of his criticism.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> P.S. I think I made a judgment error, as moderator, in approving Prof.
> Graf's subject header, as well as the pointer to his comment on his
> website. Let this be taken as notice that as of now, no subject
> headers like the above one will be approved for posting in this Forum;
> nor will postings, even with temperate headings, if they merely point
> to intemperate postings elsewhere, as the above one does.
>
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