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This is quite a sensitive topic. Well, the link really deserves its own blog post (I just removed the link to avoid further confusion). The death of Aaron Swartz was a big tragedy. I was very sorry to see that. In this case, I know it is extremely hard to defend JSTOR, but... JSTOR didn't file a lawsuit against him, and I don't think we should blame JSTOR too much for his death. Personally I strongly believe in open access, too. Pretty much everything I do is open source and open access. All I meant was that I really hope not to see people lose their lives fighting for open access. As I said in the post, I believe we can tear down the paywall in different ways, but when tearing down the paywall, we really need to think about its consequences. Yes, millions of people would be happy and enjoy free publications if the paywall were gone, but what do we do for the employees of these publishers? Do they just deserve becoming jobless? Is their work absolutely meaningless? Will any of them commit suicide if we suddenly deprive them of their jobs? On the other hand, what can authors do? Can they choose not to publish in journals behind the paywall?

Anyway, I believe we will eventually be there (open access), but there are really many questions to be answered before then, and revolutions often take time. Some people may choose to free all papers right now (e.g., Sci-Hub), and some people may choose to destroy the paywall more slowly. We share the same beliefs. I'm just on a different way, wishing no more tragedies on other ways.

I hope this clarifies my opinions a little bit.

Originally posted on 2018-08-13 17:33:29

Guest *Maëlle Salmon* @ 2018-08-14 03:13:42 originally posted:

It does clarify them, thanks for that and for removing the link!

纯粹是出于历史旧账原因。我做 knitr 包的时候，Pandoc 还没流行，Markdown 世界也是一片混乱。最早的 R Markdown 是基于一个叫 markdown 的 R 包的（现已废弃），因为它比较轻量级，而 Pandoc 毕竟太重了。后来 Pandoc 实在太优秀，我们才决定把它直接绑进 RStudio 里。

如果要从头再来的话，我肯定会基于 Pandoc 做扩展（比如用 Pandoc Filters），毕竟它的 Markdown 解析器比我在 knitr 中的正则表达式解析器要强大无数倍。

——原帖发布于 2018-10-17 19:10:13

访客 *囧尼* @ 2018-10-18 03:20:21 写道：

我也有用 pandoc 实现 bookdown 的想法，待我考察一下这个坑实际有多大 :)

bookdown 的部分功能的确应该用 Pandoc filter 实现，不该用正则表达式。

——原帖发布于 2018-10-18 03:24:23

访客 *囧尼* @ 2018-10-18 03:30:25 写道：

那我以PR的形式提交到你这里来好了 XXD