free market and capitalism you fund, we earn.

I've always thought government software should be open source as it's publicly funded

Cuz the model is built on hiding the knowledge! Exclusivity , elite ism ..haha 😹

Academic journals are the culprits. As a publicly funded researcher you have no choice but to pay to have work published because you won't get peer reviewed in the "standard" way. No one will care about your publication because no peer review and it will have no "impact score" which is gatekept by t...

In the US this has actually changed. The reasons it was paywalled were the journals, not the funding: authors usually signed copyright over to the publisher, and agencies let publishers keep federally funded papers behind a 12-month embargo. The White House science office's August 2022 memo (the "N...

If you can get an NPI, OpenEvidence has access to most if not all medical Journals.

I’ve been saying this for years. It’s unbelievable that publicly funded research is not open source. There should be no other way of publishing it.

The same reason that you need insurance when you get treated in a publically funded hospital. Just because they are publically funded doesn't change that they are privately owned.

You are not the government. Loool.