portegys@ihuxv.UUCP (Tom Portegys) (10/19/83)
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