This is (imo) the same debate as funding for science. Yes, big pharma seems to show you can have privately funded science - but this is a small corner case for

This is (imo) the same debate as funding for science. Yes, big pharma seems to show you can have privately funded science - but this is a small corner case for science as a whole, and they still make their work public - its just copyrighted. Imagine a pharma company announcing a brand new cure for "baldness" - but people would have to sign NDAs, could not remove their hats in public and so on.