That doesn't give you access to the Digital Library, which is the part of this that's relevant to the article, and it doesn't change the other arguments given.
Even as an ACM member with multiple subgroup memberships and subscriptions I can’t figure out what I have access to and what I don’t. Far too complex an access model for what they are.
Who are you kidding? For the same annual cost of IEEE membership which doesn't provide shit for access to papers, ACM opens up its entire Digital Library!
Still, if you compare getting O'Reilly membership by itself it would be cheaper to get the ACM membership
My public library offers O'Reilly digital access. Unfortunately, it was some limited subset of what O'Reilly's own subscription service offers. How does ACM compare?