Tulse wrote: And we all know how sterling the research done by private pharmaceutical companies is.
And you can be damn sure that the only reason we have any free flow of information among scientists is because their research is paid for publicly — no private companies would want their material spread to competitors.
If I’m helping fund that science, why are universities so uptight about their intellectual property rights, and why do SpringerNet, IEEE, and IOP want $30 per article? I think if their really is any flow of information between scientists, it’s informal or the result of some of them changing jobs. Hopefully I’m misunderstanding this…
