| Kasz216 said: Quite honestly, it should be law that you can't publish scientific data unless you make all of your research, methods, EVERYTHING available via a database either provided by you or the government. The only reason this isn't the case currently i'd guess is so corporations can lure sceintists who also care about publishing rather then just pure money making. |
The problem with that is that most readers do not check for themselves anyway. Most journalists don't check for themselves, why would the public?
The other issue is that confidentiality, arguably a valued right in the US, would also be a huge conflict. If governments, no matter how small and insignificant they are, maintain exclusive privilege over certain areas (eg. terrorism/security) why don't others?
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
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