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Ignoring legality, Aaron's actions, case specifics, etc., I have to admit: I really wish that the data in question was free and publicly available.
by snikolic 15y ago
Ignoring legality, Aaron's actions, case specifics, etc., I have to admit: I really wish that the data in question was free and publicly available.
- xefer 15y agoAnybody with a library card to a major public library can get this stuff for free over the web.
- snikolic 15y agoThere's an enormous difference between controlled access to individual globules of data, and free access to the entirety of a dataset.
- ak217 15y agoAnd you have a right to demand it: by federal law, all publicly funded research should be in the public domain (unless national security blah blah blah...). Unfortunately this law isn't enforced except in some aspects through provisions of all recent NIH grants (and maybe others).