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Originally Posted by downquark1
I imagine the data is published into the "public domain", but since the university won't have the facilities to mass produce it, a private company could then manufacture it at profit. But since it is public domain, anyone can compete in manufacture.
That is what usually happens in public science.
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It's a shame we can't exploit it to our financial advantage, after all, this will be done if another country/private company finds it first. This would help our finances too.
To counter the moral argument we could use some of the money to pay for supplying the third world, or even better, insist that any manufacturers supply the third world at no cost as part of any agreement.