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This sentence in Savage's reply caught my eye:
No one else had access to my database, and it was understandable that others would be reluctant to invest the same amount of time and effort in catching up, when the end product would simply be to recreate a story the Globe had already published.
Would he consider making that database public? Obviously it's Savage's / the Globe's proprietary database that is the fruit of his work so he has every right now to, but we he consider doing so in the public interest?