Except it isn't a false dichotomy like many of those questions. Either you agree that it should be free software or you don't. Privately funded institutions can

Except it isn't a false dichotomy like many of those questions. Either you agree that it should be free software or you don't. Privately funded institutions can do whatever they want in my opinion, but I don't think public funds should be used to produce closed software. Do you agree? Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying everything they do should be released, but that whenever possible, any substantial technology should be designed so that it could be useful to other people or researchers and released with either some kind of free license or into the public domain.