• mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      For the publisher it was written for free, yes. And the amount of founding increases with their fee.

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      Oh it was funded with tax/university money so that means a 3rd party private company, which had nothing to do at all with the funding/research, gets to profit from it gottcha.