A very cogently argued case and one even more relevant to our researchers in South Africa, where we have a strangely persistent view in policy and in a dominant research culture, of research communications as a matter of journal articles in foreign journals. Yet a very large number of committed and socially conscious researchers do very high quality research with the aim of achieving 'a better life for all' without getting the reputational status they deserve, nor managing to communicate their research as widely and as openly as it ought to be. I have blogged comments on http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/gray area