Fortunately the Internet, which emerged after most of these thinkers wrote, provides a diversity of information that they couldn't have dreamt of.

The internet (including its social media subsection) is a de-centralised information network which is usefully updated by 100s of millions each day.

Certainly ex-bureacrats have the advantage when unearthing Government Departmental information from open websites and imagining the information gaps.

Yes. I know someone who designed an index from freely-available data that allowed him to make a submission to "Australia's Future Tax System". https://taxreview.treasury.gov.au/content/submissions/pre_14_november_2008/Bryan_Kavanagh.pdf

Having been privatised, the data is now available at a prohibitive fee which makes continuation of the index impossible.

Privatisation of formerly shared knowledge and results based on publicly funded collaboration! Cannot stand!

And available in the home of both modern day capitalism and democracy, as an asine change in their law that gives patent rights to the first to file, regardless of who invented it!?

Thus our single step steel smelting process was gifted by Chip Goodyear, when he, as a fully imported CEO of Blue Scope? Decided to share this Australian innovation with some well heeled American friends?

And that giant intelectual, Kevin, [here to help,] Rudd, used his alleged Authority to give away, the vastly more efficient method of uranium enrichment, using Aussie innovation, pulsed laser light!? [Inmates in charge of the Asylum!?]

If it was in the public domain, then no problem anyone who wants to use it, ought be able!

We need laws to retrospectively, redress some of this theft!

Reversed onus of proof, may well see some of these crooks wearing all the egg and costs?

They may be able at this point in history to legislate away the rights of Aussie inventors/intellectuals, with a little help from quisling fiends?

That said, I see no impediment, unless you're overawed by a hyperventilating and molten Trump and his particular cohort? To stop us legislating them back again? Then allowing the chips and international convention, to fall where they may.

That said I believe the market and cooperative capitalism has no rival or competition, either from right wing exploitive capitalism or, left wing socialism!

Co-ops almost alone, were the only free market private enterprise paradigm that mostly survived the Great Depression largely intact.

And protects workers right automatically, without any union participation or interference.

Yet disliked by extreme exploitive capitalism, and parasitical drones, same thing?

Because, in most cases, it also deals them out!

Generally speaking, co-ops can't grow too large to fail! And impossible for almost any other construct to undercut, to improve/steal market share!

This is the direction we need to be heading if we in Australia want to be a peer among rivals! As opposed to their economic doormat!
Alan B.