[Terrapreta] Publications

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Mr. Foidl (Nikolaus),

Not all contributors are paid by public monies.  Therefore, these people may want to protect some of their "private work".
It is far more than disheartening for a private developer to work long and hard on development of a set of valuable experimental data or techniques, privately, then to have it disclosed in a public forum, and the developer lose his rights to the commercial development of the ideas found in the research.  This is even hard for institutions to give up to the public.  Capitalists' raiding of patentable ideas from all kinds of places really does occur.

Regards,

SKB


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nikolaus Foidl<mailto:nfoidl at desa.com.bo> 
  To: Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:03 AM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Publications


  Dear All!

  In the ongoing discussion  there we miss an important point, most of the
  information generated today is paid by public money in form of labs,
  salaries, facilities to do the research and so on. Therefore the obtained
  information and data should be public as well. Now as some greedy companies
  like Elsevier and others or the same universities living mostly on public
  money have high jacked the field of information and sequestered the public
  good to turn it into private income. Its unconceivable to pay for an article
  30 to 40 US$ again although you already paid with your taxes this product
  before.
  An average literature search is at least 500 to 800 articles( the most
  relevant on the subject you are investigating) and paying again for every
  article this would be a drain of 25.000 to 30.000 US$ per search. I strongly
  disagree with this corrupt praxis of illicit enrichment selling public good.
  This sequestering of public good is a blow against development in science
  because most interested people don't have the recourses to get the needed
  information.
  Shouldn't we fight this praxis of steeling public good?
  Best regards Nikolaus Foidl



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