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by mimd 15 days ago
So, no one's buying our textbooks anymore, it's getting costly to do our work, stop over claiming results for your marketing and insulting our work? I would have stuck with that.

Everything else seems to be organizational or standard politics. I would have avoided the political sections as it just sets those signatories up for getting into those fights, having not realized what they cosigned.

The issue of attribution is a hard problem that has festered for a while, that has mostly been obscured by the inability to discern an authors entire body of ingested information. I would be careful as, the proposed opt-out restrictions will be eventually imposed on people, which sorta blows up the whole math enterprise of universities/etc. Ie. the proposed leads to a book author revoking a person's ability to reference their arguments in a mathematic paper for money, spite, etc.