"Art Unwin" wrote in message
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My point is that IF the work of Universities is to be published it
should be open source
instead of giving it to a private entity.

but many universities ARE private entities. And if private funds are used
for research, or funds from industry sponsors are used, then there should be
no doubt that the funder's should decide what gets published and what they
keep private.

I see no point in preventing
oversite by the public at large
from seeing how their taxes are being spent.

have you actually gone to a public university and asked for access to their
library where such things are normally archived? personally i don't think i
need to pay to have everything done at a public university published for the
world. that would be a bigger expense than the research is actually worth
in many cases.

As the pool of engineers get smaller so does the disemination
of scientific information,.

Engineers are NOT scientists. Engineers design things that perform specific
functions, they may solve practical problems, but they are NOT the ones
doing most of the basic research type of work. At my last job they wanted
to change my job title from 'Engineer' to 'Scientist', this was a place that
DID perform research that was funded by industry, most of which was kept
private for use by the funders. I refused the job title change because I
preferred to do the practical stuff and make products for the customers that
did something useful instead of the research and experimentation and writing
reports.