The answer there I think is quite different. I do not believe that universities, inside their borders, should be sponsoring or permitting research that is private in nature and is not going to become part of the public intellectual world. That's a very harsh thing to say, and I know most universities, probably my own, don't follow that. But I think we have a real problem when publicly funded institutions, whose duty is the pursuit of knowledge and truth, are under somebody's thumb in what they can reveal publicly. If it is privately sponsored, I think there should be a guarantee of publication of results and a guarantee of the independence of the researchers. I think we fail on those grounds sometimes, though.
On May 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.