Reply With QuoteYeah, neat. It was so unfair to make China work for it so let's just give it to them.
White House Grants Aaron Swartz's Wish: Taxpayer-Funded Research Will Be Free
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ref=technologyAaron Swartz, a well-known Internet activist who killed himself last month, believed that information should free, not digitized and put behind pay walls.
"The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations," he once wrote.
The Obama administration just granted his wish -- at least as it pertains to research funded by taxpayers.
The White House directed federal agencies on Friday to make the results of federally-funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication. The new policy came after more than 65,000 people signed a petitionasking for expanded public access to the results of studies paid for by taxpayers.
"Americans should have easy access to the results of research they help support," John P. Holdren, the president's senior advisor on science and technology, said in a memo announcing the new open-access policy.
A neat gesture, kudos.
Yeah, neat. It was so unfair to make China work for it so let's just give it to them.
Yeah because the Chinese would find it hard to come up with the funds to get a "Nature" or "American-Geophysics" etc. subscription.Originally Posted by C.Puffs
You just keep on giving with your posts.
You're not very bright are you?
Do you think the only research the US does is on how many flies land on a pile of $hit? There is a lot of research out there that could be weaponized. Lots of the space stuff, not to mention military technology. A lot of stuff that ends up in the manufacturing sector gets R&D. Now we'll just give it away for all to freely partake of? Why should the money we spend on research go towards helping other countries compete with us? That's just stupid.
Glad my tax dollars are being used effectively.
Actually I am.
And you're a poop-head.
By everybody.
Note in the original statement "Within one year of publication". If it was secret squirrel stuff, it wouldn't be published - paywall or not.
Be happy, a lot of scientific material of public interest - and used to influence public decisions - is unavailable to the people who pay for it and are affected by such decisions. Climate Change research springs to mind as an example where instead of releasing the data, you get a press release. That won't be possible in future.
(I'm probably going to regret actually taking you seriously but. . .) Okay, so why do you think it's a good idea to give all knowledge gained with tax dollars to competing countries?
So how do you know that state secret research is covered by this? Could you provide a link to where military technology companies will be forced to open their gates for the Chinese inelligences service?
How stupid can one be to believe this? Obama's presidency has done wonders to Conservatives.China hacks into most secure corporate data bases but has a hard time raiding Lexus-Nexus for some articles? This is a positive move that will only benefit society. Most academics that are involved public research do not profit from their work while publishers and online libraries rake in money, never made sense!
So they're going to publish what's already been published? What?
"make the results of federally-funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication"
Does it say what will be shared and what won't? Nope.
Okay, so say the government makes a break through in the manufacturing of carbon nanotubes. Something that's so good it could effectively replace carbon fiber in the production of military aircraft. We should just give that away?How stupid can one be to believe this? Obama's presidency has done wonders to Conservatives.
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