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Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software (go.theregister.com)
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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 day ago

This is the publisher punishing researchers for their own market failure.

If the software is not legally available in Egypt at a price affordable to academics, they should pirate it and publish in a journal that’s not part of this exploitative racket.