What are those exceptions?
Publically funded research has been subtly hidden from exposure for decades. The key to a publication is it should provide enough detail for another researcher to duplicate your results.
With the commercialisation of Universities and intellectual property any decent academic will have a few spin-offs hoping to go unicorn. Publications always hide that bit of the secret sauce that prevents duplication.
Personally I think this is wrong - if its public then it should be open (its very difficult in practice to duplicate another's work anyway). If its commercially funded then hide what you want but be clear.
What drives all of this is the imperfect metric that more publications = better research = more funding.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
