Understanding public goods properly

Comments on Andrew Colley “NBN failings exposed on public data, costs” 15/12/2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/nbn-failings-exposed-on-public-data-and-costs/story-e6frgakx-1225810370311

While there is a potential case for some public goods as in any infrastructure, but the CSIRO case is not a case of public goods. It should be properly accounted as costs of CSIRO, and should be paid for by CSRIO.

If the government thinks it is worthwhile for CSIRO to do that, it should allocate funds for that.

Public goods should be just that public goods for public consumption, but not just an agent to use irrespective what and how its outputs will be used.

It is appalling for CSRIO to make such a poor argument in terms of NBN. They have no proper understanding what is a public good and what is not.