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Should all information be freely available to everyone?

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RJSV:
   A couple of seconds, into reading this, I realize you mean info available, whereas I'd be thinking in terms of costing cash money, vs 'free' in the literature available, when subject matter might get dicey.
So the two separate out, but have similarities;
   In your example, a government could 'weigh' the good (or any), of keeping such chemistry under a lid, vs the loss of such science detail.
   My case, example could be Elvis Presley estate wanting to charge royalties for movie viewing.  I think there the government (U.S.) determines a set amount of years, before an Elvis movie rights expire (copyrights and Patents).

MarkS:
You really need to clarify what you mean by "all". Do you really want or need to know the last time, date, duration and consistency of my bowl movements?  ;)

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: LaserSteve on November 28, 2023, 04:58:54 pm ---I work in Academia. I have access to vast amounts of interesting publications most can't afford. Depending on which of my colleagues you speak to, 30 to 60% percent of
academic papers in science are irreproducable.

 I'm hitting about 50% in biomedical and organic chemistry myself.

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A handy rule of thumb is that half of all published scientific research is wrong.
And peer review adds nothing to that.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on November 28, 2023, 07:38:58 pm ---Let the free market decide.  [/b]If the developer of the information feel that their hard work and risk is done as philanthropy, so it is.  If they want to make a buck, they should be able to do so.

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Not accoridng to the open source hardware purists.

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 28, 2023, 05:16:42 am ---
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on November 26, 2023, 06:11:53 pm ---In a near-perfect world, it would be great. Just think of the amount of time saved as we don't have to reinvent the wheel every time we go to do a task. If someone works out a better way to do something, that way gets adopted.

This is kinda the way I view Open Source stuff. It's why when I have stuff I try to share it with others.
The problem is that all information to be freely available isn't good for business.
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And therein lies the rub.
For example, even the most pure and ardent open source hardware companies aren't going to give you a list of their suppliers, prices, and other business related stuff so you can duplicate them.

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Often things made with alternate components are better performing & more reliable than using the original parts, so the exact suppliers etc., aren't a vital part of building a device of equivalent specifications.

Just knowing what a complete device is supposed to do is often enough.

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