The different treatments of patents and federally funded research has always been shocking to me. In the one case, a private party pays the government for a lim

The different treatments of patents and federally funded research has always been shocking to me. In the one case, a private party pays the government for a limited monopoly on a novel idea and the government makes the patent publicly available. In the other case, the government pays for the research, the authors pay for publication, the authors’ peers review the work for free, and Elsiever gets the rights to paywall it forever at 10000% markup over S3 storage costs.