[open-science] Open access, scholarship and business

Mon Dec 12 18:52:41 UTC 2011

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Michael Nielsen wrote:

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> On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Heather Morrison wrote:
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>> Similarly, if business benefits from our work, shouldn't they have SOME 
>> obligation to reciprocate?
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> They do: the bulk of the taxes used to support public research comes either 
> directly or indirectly (through the income tax paid to salaried employees) 
> from commercial activity.

That is, of course, meant to be the income tax paid BY salaried employees.

Michael