From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:17:18 -0700 "Precarious", Winston, means "one must think twice". A.B. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:30 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 02:43:11 +0000 > > So "precarious" means do what? > > > > On Mar 17, 2016, at 10:38 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]> > > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 21:00:25 -0700 > > > > Jim, > > > > I think the major issue here is priority and thus -- tangentially -- copyright. > > > > Here is my experience - for what it worth. > > > > Three days ago my own paper was pre-published: > > > > http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700720-12341264 > > > > It was submitted on Christmas eve 2014 and appeared at the VC website > > several days ago, March 11, 2016. So its way up took almost a year > > and 3 months. (And it is not formally published, or rather is not > > assigned yet to a particular issue.) > > > > But along the way, I twice submitted corrections and improvements. And > > they increased paper's value significantly - not the major claim that > > remains the same but supporting arguments. > > > > Well, this is a history of science work. But imagine it is a hard > > science! If you make a mistake in a long series of arguments and > > someone else corrects it, who is the author of the final result? > > > > These are subtle things. Pre-publication on arxiv is precarious - it > > pre-opens a Pandora's box of priority disputes. > > > > Ari Belenkiy > > Vancouver BC