Xref: utzoo comp.object:1725 comp.lang.c++:9363 comp.lang.eiffel:1075 comp.lang.smalltalk:2204 comp.software-eng:4128 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!rex!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: TOOLS '91 (March 4-8) - Call for Papers Keywords: Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems Message-ID: Date: 3 Sep 90 01:00:37 GMT References: <402@eiffel.UUCP> <1990Sep2.193720.17672@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Sep2.230249.7858@ecn.purdue.edu> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 27 giacomet@venus.ecn.purdue.edu (Frederic B Giacometti) writes: |And can't your library afford it ? Don't be ridiculous, please. Wouldn't |you rather have something to say about the 50 - 80 $ textbooks you are |requested to buy, your "expensive" tuitions, the overpriced registration |fees, and whatever expenses ... Please, if you're a grad. student, ask |your library to get them for you and stop whinning in this newsgroup. |Anyway, which grad student would ever buy a Siggraph paper, even if it was |priced $10 ? What a pathetic view of students, and what an optimistic view of libraries. Why don't students just check out their textbooks from the library? Ever wonder, hmmmm? I guess I shouldn't own a copy of "The C Programming Language" or the LaTeX reference manual. Hey! I shouldn't own any books at all. I'll just check them out of the library. No one is being ridiculous here. These conferences are using our resources to get papers, and then selling those papers at ridiculous prices. One author here said he couldn't afford to buy his own paper! Protesting isn't whining. It's trying to get something done. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** rec.pyrotechnics: "Blow up or shut up."