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Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

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Re: Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

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I have to say, we should all be super grateful for the OSS community. There's so much free non-publicly funded continuously supported OSS available within a click of a button. I am a data scientist, and everyday I am amazed how powerful the anaconda distribution (and its over 150 included packages) is. Is there any industry on Earth that has anything like OSS?

Re: Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

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"Be publicly available" you mean available to everybody on earth even though they have not funded it ?

Likely.

The benefits of making access to knowledge available openly far outweigh the benefits of keeping that knowledge behind a ridiculous pay wall that only benefits corporations who act as gate keepers to knowledge.

Re: Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available

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post #3

"Be publicly available" you mean available to everybody on earth even though they have not funded it ?

Yeah, why not?

Isn't it based on tons of other research from third countries, from Indian mathematics to Newton and Leibniz that you haven't funded either?

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