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Well said! The same situation exists in all subjects and the presented arguments can be extended to all of them. Perhaps lives are not always lost but time and money are, for sure. When a large chunk of research money has to be used up buying access to information, then less research gets done.

So these people who are in business of making money by restricting access to information that was altruistically provided by someone else are clearly promoting backwardness and ignorance.



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