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"Be publicly available" you mean available to everybody on earth even though they have not funded it ?
The current system has foreign distributors receiving research papers practically for free, and reselling them for money world wide.
In many ways that is worse than freely available world wide.
it could be argued that they are mostly paying through prestige.
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Again, the post was addressing the absurd proposal that "If your university takes any federal money , all research has to be open."
All research the university does is different than all research the professor does. As long as they are at a university being funded by the public, the public has a claim to the research. If they want to do private research, they can switch to the private. If a person is being paid by the public, why should they be able to spend their time and resources working in private? Think of it like a general IP ownership agre…
"The university" is not funded by the public. It's funded by Federal money, and State money, and tuition, and commercial grants and donations. Just claiming that's "being funded by the public" is claiming 100% of the output, while not providing 100% of the input.
Similarly, I'm not paid from a single source. I'm paid through a mix of state money, federal money, and yes, some commercial grants. If a commercial entity wants to pay for a portion of my lab's expenses and salary, why should "the public" be entitled to the proceeds?
That's the problem being argued against - not that public money should mean public access, but that "some public money" (no matter how small) suddenly entitles the public to everything.
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Steam doesn't work on 'any Linux' without jumping through many many hoops for most distros.
While this used to be the case, with Valve's steam machines they seem to have a native client now[0]. [0] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux