[barry-cotter]

It would be surprising if you expected universities to live by the ideals they profess but experience teaches that they don’t.

[flybrand]

I sold a line of high end r&d tools to university labs; they became engines to knock off each others work. The least ethical group of buyers I ever worked with!

[nautilius]

“Surprising” refers to journals, not universities. It’s completely unsurprising (albeit unethical) that universities take the easy way.