Most of the stuff I mention in comments that I forward to developers came from several years of free access to ACM and IEEE where I could follow-up on any line

Most of the stuff I mention in comments that I forward to developers came from several years of free access to ACM and IEEE where I could follow-up on any line of research I wanted. I had to read hundreds of papers, esp experience reports, to get an idea of what would or wouldn't work in a variety of contexts for INFOSEC, high reliability, productivity, and maintainability. There have been countless people stunned by some of the prior works wishing they'd known about them before for their more recent explorations. Supports idea that having them available with something like SciHub for those without free access would've boosted researcher or programmer effectiveness for those using them. EDIT: The CompSci people themselves that are pushing progress often cite paywalled works. That may also support that access to them would accelerate progress outside CompSci if its a prerequisite to developer certain ideas evolving from older ones.