it looks quite impossible to think that people think that making knowledge available for everyone is going to stop researchers to exchange information. My teachers at the university always tell me to look at some articles posted in arxiv.org because they're faster to find and much faster to publish, as a publication in a peer-review basis spend a lot of time, and after all, they're going to be published on the big scientific publications, such as PRL. Some which are not ready for a free knowledge just try to stop the spreading of knowledge, as big vendors try to stop open-source software.
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In the last free software forum in Brazil, Richard Stallman told everyone not to use any webmail's based on the US because of this fear
there have been a lot of work on that!!! It's called http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ and it's not yet stable...
it looks quite impossible to think that people think that making knowledge available for everyone is going to stop researchers to exchange information. My teachers at the university always tell me to look at some articles posted in arxiv.org because they're faster to find and much faster to publish, as a publication in a peer-review basis spend a lot of time, and after all, they're going to be published on the big scientific publications, such as PRL. Some which are not ready for a free knowledge just try to stop the spreading of knowledge, as big vendors try to stop open-source software.