Special Interest Group on CRAP

There was a time when commercial publishers provided a crucial service in the printing and distribution of scientific publications. That need has diminished to the point where it doesn’t make sense to continue to use this model. USENIX has announced that they will make all of their conference proceedings freely available online. This marks a major advance in open access publishing, and it deserves the support of every author. I encourage everyone to submit their best research work to USENIX. The days of giving scientific work to commercial publishers so they can sell it back to us and restrict dissemination in the process must come to an end.