IEEE Members Furious
John Dudley Miller,
The Scientist,
Mar 17, 2004
The simmering debate at the IEEE has boiled over. "More than 5100 people—most of them members of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)—have signed a petition calling on the organization to 'cease discrimination against IEEE members from countries that are embargoed by the US government.'" The IEEE has had this sort of controversy before; long time OLDaily readers will recall the debate that erupted when IEEE authors were asked to sign a document affirming that they had conformed to the U.S. Diginal Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a measure that was subsequently revoked.
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