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From: portegys@ihuxv.UUCP (Tom Portegys)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Goverment censorship of research
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 13:16:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 19 13:16:14 1983
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Here is my 2 cents worth on the issue of goverment censorship
of goverment-sponsored research.  I think that it is difficult
to draw the line on what is and is not to be kept proprietary.
A research effort, by its very nature, is hard to evaluate for
possible economic/military/whatever benefits.  But one of the
problems with claiming too much proprietary is that it defeats
the intention of stimulating related parallel research.  So,
I believe a reasonable decision rule would be: "unless you are
sure that releasing this information would cause a serious loss
of sensitive information, do not censor it".

         Tom Portegys, Bell Labs IH, ihuxv!portegys