I've seen quite a few academics wrangling with patents. What should come first? Proliferation of the sciences or (potential) profit? Your point about the golden goose is pretty interesting and others in this thread has pointed to the misaligned incentive structure in academia. I'm curious, do you think things like JOSS could help open up data and "the golden goose"? I'm not sure the funding bodies I'm interacting with would respect this kind of initiative, but maybe it's just a matter of time.