Why own a chair when you can license just the minutes of seating time that you need? To achieve this economic efficiency, all we need is a chair with spikes sticking up through the seat which retract when you swipe your credit card. No cheating, now. Covering the spikes with a board is an unlawful circumvention device. For more details see Steve Mann's Seating Made Simple. (Thanks to Politech.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/02/2003 09:34:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
