Censorship, in other words. Corporations have been known to use research and develoment departments of universities as if they were in-house facilities. Professors and research workers become nothing more that contract workers for the companies. They don't even get benefits. I am greatly concerned with this increasing alliance of university and business.
Free inquiry is essential to human progress and well-being.
Corporate secrecy does not bode well for the free dissemination of information. I might propose that corporate contributions be made to a separate foundation which will administer research funds, thus eliminating the direct corporate-university contact. Another alternative, of ccourse, is taxing business for research and development, and granting amounts of the proceeds to universities for research, no strings attached. I do not think that the corporate search for profits should interfere with the free exchange of knowledge, which the burgeoning field of hyper-text technology has done so much to develop and encourage. Thank you for your considerations.