[tonyarkles]

I'm not angry and I totally get your point of view. I don't think you're wrong.

My belief is that the underlying issue is that most companies and their drive for quarterly results means that they won't front a bunch of the "we're not sure if this will result in anything but it's an interesting thing to look into" style of research on their own. The Bell Labs of the olden days are gone and publicly-funded R&D has essentially replaced it.

It's not all bad though, having all of that research published instead of tucked away in a private research facility can be beneficial.

[zmibes]

Which makes sense and also prompts the question: Why is research funded by public money published in journals that are not freely available to the public?