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Taking someone's money to fund research and then not giving them access to that research is theft. If that money is tax money, I'd call it treason.
by Causality1 7y ago
Taking someone's money to fund research and then not giving them access to that research is theft. If that money is tax money, I'd call it treason.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y ago> Taking someone's money to fund research and then not giving them access to that research is theft. That seems like hyperbole to me. I think it falls more into the category of "inequitable exchange" or "bad deal".
- throwawayjava 7y agoThe big bucks are in patents, not in The Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Intergalactic Conference on Subsubsubsfied. Doing something about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act seems way more important than fixing publishing...